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5.3.5 Licences

When sharing data with external parties, either by selling it or by offering it free of charge, it is
fundamental to ensure that the data provider will keep control over their data. To support a dynamic
ecosystem in which providers can establish various business models the system should provide
several licence models for their data, including commercial and open licences. Furthermore, to
better match the expectations of the stakeholders, the platform should offer data-license templates
with variable content, configurable based on the terms decided by the data provider. This will make
it possible to define:

– the exclusivity of the data licence;
– the business sectors for which the data may be used;

– the geographical restrictions for the usage of data;

– the period of validity of the authorization/right to access data;
– the intended purpose for which the data are used;

– the authorization to resell data.

5.3.6 Service level agreements

Many different stakeholders are part of the digital single market and different levels of service may
be required. The system should provide functionalities to define and manage extensible SLA for
data access, as well as providing common metadata to define SLA so that the management and
the comprehension of the SLA descriptions can be simplified.

5.3.7 Feedback and monitoring

Feedback, rating and reputation mechanisms are useful in order to provide a source of suggestions
to improve data, services and applications deployed within the city, to facilitate asset selection by
the end users, and to build a reputation for the providers that can be exploited among different city
marketplaces. Thus, the system has to provide a user feedback management for the different assets
published on the marketplace, be able to describe improvements and/or use experience and rate
their quality. Moreover, the system has to provide advanced usage monitoring functions necessary
in order to enable other services (e.g., usage statistics, revenue models, technical management).

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