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Challenges for a data-driven society

have realized the importance of trialing and testing as Taking into consideration how Maxwell [19] reinvents
means to improve implementation and uptake of standards. traditional storytelling through blockchain, to convert
In this regard, it is worth highlighting some international reporting into a process of value, we reboot the standards
experiences such as the BuildingSMART Tetralogy of narrative by adding testing and trialing activities, as
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BIM in the USA or the EU Fiware IoT Ready Program , capitalizations that will increase benefit realization of using
as examples for BIM and IoT de facto standards standards and therefore their market value. As part of the
respectively developed in a trailing environment. blockchain-based standards drafting process, these trialing
and testing experiences will be included in the standard.
Our Proof of Know How (PoKH) consensus algorithm will
make sure that at least one implementation of a proposed
piece of guidance is made before it is added to the standard.
The more and better tests a participant node can proof, the
more PoKH will be awarded with (Figure 2). Moreover, this
pioneering inclusion of implementations conforming with
the standard will also have a positive impact in market
uptake and implementation of standards since practical
exemplification is the best way to promote adoption.

Fig. 1. EC’s organic network growth

The figure shows how the network gains participants from
the supply (s), demand (d) and innovators (i) side. Fig. 2. Blockchain-based standards drafting.
Participants are nodes in the blockchain network -vertices
in the figure-. The traditional Rapporteur role disappears Different transaction stages in the process of building a
and the Secretariat (S) is now part of the network as a block, corresponding to phase n of an EC network (see
node. (Source: Author`s elaboration) Figure 1). In Alfa stage, nodes started ‘transacting
guidance’ to create a block containing that piece of
guidance that, once finished, would be added to the
blockchain containing the standard. The consensus
16 https://www.nationalbimstandard.org/tetralogyofbim algorithm Proof-of-KnowHow (PoKH) ensures that no
17 https://catalogue.fiware.org/iot_ready block is closed until an implementation exemplifying the

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