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Data management Working Group

Find out more about the goals, activities and publications of this Working Group

 

The Data Management Working Group is dedicated to addressing various facets, spanning technical means for exchanging and processing data among stakeholders, to formulating rules for data exchange. This includes tackling security issues and determining the distribution of responsibilities in data handling.

Aligned with its mission, the WG has identified three key areas of collaboration, fostering mutual exchange of perspectives and discussions: 

  • Communication infrastructure – this entails enhancing technical means for effective exchange of data 
  • Cybersecurity and data privacy – this encompasses data integrity, customer privacy and protection; 
  • Data handling – this entails establishing the framework for data exchange and related roles and responsibilities

The Data Management Working Group is divided in five task forces:

  1. Use cases repository – this task focuses on providing a comprehensive view of all simplified and homogenized projects, presenting use cases in a straightforward format
  2. EU data exchange reference architecture – this task force is involved in the development of a standardized language and Data Exchange Reference Architecture (DERA3.0), supporting the concept of a data space, featuring a federated structure.
  3. Reference framework – this task strives to establish a methodology and reference framework to enable the interoperability of flexibility assets. This is achieved through a meticulous analysis of implemented solutions in various projects, including the definition of Generic Business Processes (GBPs)
  4. Bridge Standards User group – this task force is dedicated to the dissemination (i.e., through webinars) of collective knowledge at system level
  5. Interoperability of home appliance – this task focuses on characterizing and comparing the solutions used by BRIDGE projects for achieving home appliances interoperability, through the use of “common languages” and adapters

 

For more information about this Working Group, please contact secretariat@horizon-bridge.eu

Chair:

Olivier Genest (TRIALOG)

 

Latest reports and documents

Reference framework
Reference framework updated report 2024 - Data management working group (October 2024) The topic of “Interoperability of flexibility assets” was discussed and its scope defined during the BRIDGE General Assembly held on 11-12 March 2020 in Brussels. A first report on this topic was published in April 2021. It included a Reference Framework made of 3 Generic Business Processes (GBPs) and performed an interoperability analysis over 10 use cases from 4 projects. Since then, the Reference Framework has been extended to add 2 new GBPs and proposes a first version of the settlement subprocess. This second version of the Reference Framework was detailed in the “Interoperability of flexibility assets” report version 2.0 completed in June 2022, together with an interoperability analysis based on 36 use cases from 14 projects.
Interoperability of home appliances
Interoperability of home appliances Report 2023, 2024 - Data management working group (October 2024) This report refines the common ground on the interoperability of home appliances and provides insights from the BRIDGE projects on their approaches, challenges and solutions/products related to this topic. In this second report the potential new activities for the Action #5 Interoperability of home appliances are investigated and proposed.
European (energy) data exchange reference architecture 3.1
European (energy) data exchange reference architecture 3.1 - Data management working group (October 2024) This report is the version 3.1 of Data Exchange Reference Architecture – DERA 3.1. The BRIDGE report on energy data exchange reference architecture aims at contributing to the discussion about and the practical steps towards truly interoperable and business process agnostic data exchange arrangements on European scale both inside energy domain and across different domains.