Draft Details

1.1   General

This technical specification is focused on protocols for data sourcing. This Technical Specification aims to establish comprehensive guidelines for data governance, trust frameworks, ensuring transparency, data quality, data sharing and use, and privacy. The Annex includes a data sourcing protocol template, while the Technical Specification covers guidelines for data quality assessment, informed consent, privacy and confidentiality procedures, and documentation processes. This Technical Specification provides governance guidelines on how the user can source data, integrate aggregated data, and maintain data transparency and trust. This Technical Specification addresses:

·    Transparency of data sourcing decisions and transparency of the data sources and methodologies.

·    Protocols for disclosure, privacy and confidentiality of data sourced by the users. Mitigations solutions to privacy risks and business confidentiality issues.

·    Processes on how the users document, retain, publish, archive and dispose of the data they collect or create.

1.2     Terminology

In this Standard, “shall” is used to express a requirement, i.e., a provision that the user is obliged to satisfy in order to comply with the standard; “should” is used to express a recommendation or that which is advised but not required; and “may” is used to express an option or that which is permissible within the limits of the Standard.

Notes accompanying clauses do not include requirements or alternative requirements; the purpose of a note accompanying a clause is to separate from the text explanatory or informative material.

Notes to tables and figures are considered part of the table or figure and may be written as requirements.

Annexes are designated normative (mandatory) or informative (non-mandatory) to define their application.