Several organizations and initiatives are currently creating system agreements for federated data sharing between parties (both market parties and governments). This is driven by the broad societal challenges (housing, climate, livability, etc.) for which data from multiple domains must be brought together. For each domain it must be clear what the data represents and what the concepts mean.
These similar system agreements also lead to the realization of very similar components or building blocks, such as standards, software building blocks, basic facilities or even services. Architects and programme / project managers involved in the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (I&W) determined that there could be potential benefits if the development of these basic facilities were taken up jointly and/or reused.
To explore the potential a survey of the technical components within the various initiatives is carried out. The results of that survey, supplemented by a number of scenarios for the future, can be read in the report Survey of the Architecture of Ecosystems