Book contributions

• i3-MARKET BOOK SERIES PART I:

The i3-MARKET Data-Driven Economy

In this first part of the i3-MARKET Book series we begin by discussing the principles of the modern data economy that lead to make the society more aware about the value of the data that is produced everyday by themselves but also in a collective manner, i.e. in an industrial manufacturing plant, a smart city full of sensors generating data about the behaviours of the city and their inhabitants and/or the wellbeing and healthcare levels of a region or specific locations, etc. Data Business is one of the most disruptive areas in today’s global economy, particularly with the value that large corporates have embedded in their solutions and products as result of the use of data from every individual.
i3-MARKET envision a large number of data-driven opportunities emerging for activating new channels of innovation named as Data Marketplaces where the data can be trade and commercialize transparently and with full liberty at the local and global scale while at the same time catapulting data-driven business opportunities for more disruptive data-centric services. i3-MARKET is at the same time a backplane platform that can serve as a set of support tools or a standalone implementation of marketplace services as result of a sharing vision from a representative global group of experts, providing a common vision and identifying impacts in the different sectors where data is produced.

• i3-MARKET BOOK SERIES PART II:

The i3-MARKET Technologies and Solutions

Data Economy is commonly referring to the diversity in The use of data to provide social benefits and have a direct impact in people’s life, from a technological point of view data economy implies technological services to underpin the delivery of data applications that bring value and addressed the diverse demands on selling, buying and trading data assets. The demand and the supply side in the data is increasing exponentially and it is being demonstrated that the value that the data has today is as relevant as any other tangible and intangible assets in the global economy. In this second book it is further discuss why Data is the focus in current technological developments towards digital markets and the meaning for data being the next asset to appear evolution in trading markets and at the same time it focuses on introducing the i3-MARKET technology and the proposed solutions.
In this second i3-MARKET series book we start reviewing the basic technological principles and software best practices and standards for implementing and deploying Data Spaces and Data Marketplaces. The book provides a definition for Data-Driven Society as: The process to transform data production into data economy for the people using the emerging technologies and scientific advances in data science to underpin the delivery of data economic models and services. This book further discuss why Data Spaces and Data Marketplaces are the focus in todays data-driven society as the trend to rapidly transforming the data perception in every aspect of our activities. In this book technology assets that are designed and implemented followed the i3-MARKET backplane Reference Architecture (RA) that uses Open Data, BigData, IoT and AI design principles are introduced. Moreover, the series of software assets grouped as sub-systems and composed by software artefacts are included and explained in full. Further, we describe i3-MARKET backplane tools and how these can be used for supporting Marketplaces and its components including details of available data assets. Next, we provide description of solutions developed in i3-MARKEt as an overview of the potential for being the reference open-source solution to improve data economy across different data marketplaces.

• i3-MARKET BOOK SERIES PART III:

The i3-MARKET Handbook

Technology deployment tools, software development frameworks and testbed tools (sandboxes) are popular these days, to facilitate the complexity of deploying applications and services based on complex software packages, from a practical point of view the deployment and testing of software technology should not be an burden anymore as per the large number of technologies that exist but also because the evolution of these software tools is indicating sooner than later this will only relay in having powerful systems capable to run such complex frameworks and the rest is just provide few steps to configure and execute the deployment. The reality is a bit different, while there are excellent tools to deploy and run software virtually everywhere, the technology must run in specific computing infrastructures with well-defined specifications and functionalities.
In this third i3-MARKET series book we are focusing in including the best practices and simplest software methods and mechanisms that allow the i3-MARKET backplane reference implementation to be instantiated, tested and validated even before the technical experts and developers’ community decide to integrate the i3-MARKET as a reference implementation or Adopted Open-Source Software tools. At this book the purpose of offering a guidebook for technical experts and developers is addressed, the so-called industrial deployment or pilots need to have clear understanding of the technological components but also the software infrastructures, alike the steps to be followed to avoid overwhelm the deployment activity. I3-MRKEt has three industrial Pilots defined in terms of data resources used to deploy data-driven applications that uses the most of the i3-MARKEt backplane services and functionalities. The different software technologies developed, including the use of open-source frameworks, within the context of the i3-MARKET is considered as a bill of software artefacts of the resources needed to perform demonstrators, proof of concepts and prototype solutions. The i3-MARKET handbook provided can actually be used as input for configurators and developers to set up and pre-test testbeds and therefore it is extremely valuable to organizations to used properly.