From 21 to 22 November, the DATAMITE Consortium met in Bologna to host its third -and last of 2023- plenary meeting. Two days of intense work that have served to discuss the progress made so far and next steps to achieve the project’s main aim: to provide a modular, open-source and multi-domain Framework for Improving Data Monetisation.
The meeting, hosted at the premises of CINECA, was developed over two full days in order to make an in-depth assessment of the progress made during these first 11 months of work and to establish the necessary roadmaps to start producing tangible results for the beginning of DATAMITE’s second year of life. We are approaching the halfway point of the project and, although as a consortium we are very happy with the pace of work, it is necessary to start moving from theory to practice in order to revolutionise the European Data Market.
The first day of the meeting started with an overview of the status of the project with the Project Coordinator, Santiago Cáceres Elvira, PMP from ITI, followed by two parallel sessions to discuss Data Sharing Mechanisms and Data Sovereignty, and the project’s business and quality approach to fostering the European Data Economy, respectively. Following these two focus groups, the consortium discussed one of the core aspects of DATAMITE: the architecture of the pilots. All attendees participated in this practical workshop, whose main aim was to derive the architectural concept of each pilot, including a mapping of components and functionalities covered. In the afternoon two parallel sessions took place on Data Governance, Quality, Security and Support Modules on the one hand, and Dissemination, Exploitation and Collaboration on the other. The day ended with a plenary session on Front end, Open Source and WP5 Integration, Demonstration, and Validation.
The morning of the second day was devoted to an in-depth review of the status, the next steps and the risk mitigation strategies for each work package, so that all members of the consortium were aware of progress to date. To conclude the day, and the meeting, we resumed the session on pilot architecture so that each partner in charge of its leadership could present the ideas and issues discussed the previous day.
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