Data Marketplaces are online platforms that enable the easier discovery, sharing and (when required) selling of data between data publishers and data consumers. They therefore act as brokers and intermediaries, ensuring the latest versions of data sources are available and consumable.
So it is important that these marketplaces do not themselves become bottlenecks (e.g. preventing easy and regular access) or just another repository of out-of-date files.
In short, a Net Zero Data Marketplace should facilitate the sharing not storing of data, ideally connecting to a live source from each data publisher.
The usual way of providing real-time access to a data source is to use an Application Programming Interface (API), a technology that exposes a specific amount of data from back-end systems defined using a specification – typically using an open standard. APIs are now the default way of providing integration and data sharing services between systems (based on many different technologies) in a consistent way.
The use of APIs as sources in a Net Zero Data Marketplace therefore enables emissions-related data to reside in the publisher’s original host system and to be shared by any number of consumers… without them knowing who each other are.
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