Knowledge Base

The Aquo Standard (Aquo) is the Dutch standard for the efficient and automated exchange of water data. The Aquo Standard was developed and is managed by Informatiehuis Water.

CROW devises smart and practical solutions for issues concerning infrastructure, public space, traffic, and transport in the Netherlands. We support the civil engineering and mobility sectors in making the physical living environment smarter, more sustainable, more accessible, and safer by developing guidelines and manuals, as well as offering courses and training.

The Water Information House is a collaborative program of the water managers of the Netherlands: the water boards, the provinces, and Rijkswaterstaat. They ensure that sufficient and clean surface and groundwater is available.

ISSO is an open knowledge club. We develop professional knowledge for professionals in the built environment. Knowledge you can use. Because knowing better leads to building better.

We create and manage standards to organise and exchange data with the goal of automizing data processing, efficiently and durably. Standard solution for a datastructure that can be used for big datasets, like productinformation or enviromental data, used to tranfer datasets between different software applications. Widely used whitin the sector.

NVTB, unites the building materials industry. The umbrella organization that represents the interests of trade associations and their members. We realize significant benefits through digitalization throughout the entire chain.

Open standards for Revit users. Optimize your BIM processes with Revit Standards. A stable framework for collaboration and information exchange in the construction industry.

Central to us the question of how we maintain control over quality in (water)soil, archaeology, and data, in a field that is constantly evolving and in which the balance between trust and oversight is continually being sought.

We deploy our extensive experience, in-depth knowledge and innovative products and services to connect logistics organisations, the government sector and other air cargo data hubs worldwide. Our goal is to create a seamless chain and operate as an internationally connected hub that enables swift, smart and efficient cargo handling.

Hyperion: Sustainable, Data-Driven Aircraft Maintenance. In the Hyperion project, InnoTractor collaborates with KLM Engineering & Maintenance, NLR, and the Dutch Ministry of Defence to build a fully data-driven ecosystem for aviation and defense logistics.

The DOVA Partnership consists of the 12 provinces, the Amsterdam Transport Region, the Rotterdam The Hague Metropolitan Area, and the Groningen Drenthe Public Transport Bureau. The organization consists of three clusters: Public Transport Network, Public Transport Data, and Public Transport Base.

In DSM parties within the mobility domain collaborate to better leverage the power of mobility data. Examples include municipalities, public transport companies, and navigation services.

deployEMDS is a project co-funded under the EU Digital Europe Programme and responds to its outlined challenges. The project will help make the common European mobility data space a reality.

Together, we are building digital autonomy for the commons. Umbrella association eCommons connects technology with community. We build and manage digital tools that communities hold in their own hands, ensuring that data, collaboration, and technology remain the property of the people who use them.

FCInet is a decentralised network, created, financed and governed by its members. With FCInet you can quickly find relevant information, both nationally and globally, while at the same time respecting the rights of the data subjects.

Together with stakeholders, the IBDS is developing a Federated Data System (FDS). This data system facilitates the searching, sharing, and integrated application of high-quality data from various data sources for multiple uses. Transparent and verifiable, so that citizens and businesses can trust the government’s data usage.

A cutting-edge EUSPA-funded innovation project ensuring reliable, transparent, and high-accuracy space data for sustainable and autonomous agriculture. HASHTAG: Making Space Data Work for Smarter Farming.

Making data more accessible. Discover, develop, and share datasets and AI algorithms within an innovative ecosystem. Experience and leverage decentralized technologies and the European Gaia-X data-sharing concepts. We facilitate public-private, cross-sector, and cross-border collaboration while ensuring digital sovereignty.

AgroConnect is a consultation platform for making agreements regarding data exchange in the Dutch agrifood sector. AgroConnect ensures that bottlenecks in the exchange and sharing of data are resolved.

At Wageningen Robotics, we specialize in research and development of adaptive, ‘‘simplex’’, and agile robotic technologies. These cutting-edge technologies pave the way for advancements across various industries, with agro-food domains being just one example of their potential applications.

Akkerweb’s mission is to promote the development of precision agriculture, smart farming, and decision-support applications for sustainable and profitable agriculture with reduced environmental impact. To this end, Akkerweb has developed an independent, open, web-based GEO platform.

One powerful voice for Dutch arable farming. BO Akkerbouw actively works towards a positive outlook for the arable farming sector and provides solutions to collective issues. We do this in close cooperation with our members across the entire chain. Together, we are working on the arable farming of tomorrow.

The BOER&DATA Foundation, an initiative for and by farmers, advocates for the interests and rights of the farmer to strengthen the farmer’s data position. This is a data-driven agriculture, in which advice and services can be offered based on the collected data to support the agricultural entrepreneur in his business operations.

The Dutch Data Line (HDL), use case 8 of the NXTGEN HIGHTECH component of the Groeifonds project – part of Handsfree AgriFood – aims to give farmers more control over their data. To this end, the HDL is working towards a blueprint for an ‘agricultural information hub’, a structure based on farmer-centered governance.

SOIL-Data: Reliable Data, Smarter Farming. At SOIL-Data together with agri-tech companies, forward-thinking farmers, research institutes, and government agencies, we turn ideas into real impact, using geo-information from drones, satellites, and advanced spatial analyses.

AeroVision is an independent procurement advisor in (geo)information. We ensure that geo-information actually adds value to your decision-making. Based on your requirements, we select the most suitable offer.

LTO Noord stands up for the interests of agricultural entrepreneurs – locally, regionally, nationally, and in Brussels. We ensure your voice is heard and are committed to a strong, future-proof sector.

Our project has the ambition to force a breakthrough in the supply and use of green energy carriers in transport to, from and within ports. By demonstrating and implementing smart solutions in the realm of digitalization and automation, we will facilitate and contribute to the decarbonization of port-related transport.

NOVIMOVE technology developments will be demonstrated by virtual simulation, scaled model tests and full-scale demonstrations. NOVIMOVE innovations will impact the quantity of freight moved by IWT along the R-A corridor by 30% with respect to 2010 baseline data.

The Open Class 3D Exchange (OCX) standard represents a step-change in maritime context. The OCX is a vessel-specific standard addressing the information needs by the classification society and is a key enabler to replace traditional 2D class drawings with a 3D model.

One Maritime Data Standard is the standard for the uniform recording and electronic exchange of product and trade data for the Dutch maritime sector. OMDS focuses on reducing supply chain failure costs and increasing quality, speed, and efficiency within the maritime industry as a whole.

Digital solutions for predictable and sustainable port operations. Equips your port with the tools needed to collect accurate emissions data, calculate fuel consumption, and ensure compliance with  regulations.

The Open Simulation Platform (OSP) is an open-source industry initiative for co-simulation of maritime equipment, systems and entire ships.

EU-funded SEUS project will create a framework for European shipyards by developing an integrated platform that combines the most modern shipbuilding life-cycle management with computer-aided design, manufacturing, engineering and product data software.

SPEED is a European Interreg project aiming to build an ecosystem for smart port app development in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the UK, bridging the gap between the worlds of European ports and the nascent data science – IoT market.

The TwinShip Horizon Europe project is spearheading an initiative to transform the maritime sector by creating an alliance of premier maritime technology, solution & service providers, ship design and shipping firms, classification societies, ports, software developers, and research and academic bodies.

VesselAI aims at realising a holistic, AI-empowered framework for decision-support models, data analytics and visualisations to build digital twins and maritime applications for a diverse set of cases with high impact, including simulating and predicting vessel behaviour and manoeuvring (including the human factor), ship energy design optimisation, autonomous shipping and fleet intelligence

EDF2021-Funded project EUROPEAN DIGITAL NAVAL FOUNDATION (EDINAF) will develop the foundations of a digital ship and a ship digital architecture, implement a demonstrator infrastructure to deploy relevant Use Cases, embedding a digital ship platform & operation control system.

DigiShape is an open innovation platform of companies, knowledge institutions and governments that want to exploit the potential of digitization for the water sector together. Given the urgency of the increasing climate problems, it is crucial to share data and insights with each other.

DT4GS will provide an industry-wide decarbonization decision-support system for shipyards, equipment manufacturers, port authorities and operators, river commissions, classification societies, energy companies and transport /corridor infrastructure companies.

This knowledge hub is created by DNV to support and enrich the Dutch Naval Design collaboration effort by the “Golden Ecosystem”, consisting of Netherlands Ministry of Defense and Dutch Naval community.

Docklab is a digital technology lab and a venture studio, rooted in the Port of Rotterdam. We help shape future proof supply chains and energy markets.

FENIX will expedite and optimise the Pan-European transport and logistics federative network by establishing the premier European logistics planning and execution Platform as a Service, serving the European logistics community of shippers, logistics service providers, mobility infrastructure providers, cities, and authorities.

From this innovation ecosystem, the Northern Netherlands maritime manufacturing industry can take the lead in the transition to the sustainability of seagoing vessels and the strengthening of the international leading position of Northern shipyards, co-makers, and technology developers.

Since 1 January 2024, all IMO Member States are required to use a single, centralized digital platform or “Maritime Single Window” (MSW) to collect and exchange information with ships when they call at ports. This streamlines procedures to clear the arrival, stay and departure of ships and greatly enhance the efficiency of shipping worldwide.

Dutch shipyard uses eShare digital twin platform to reduce number of printed technical production drawings.

We believe that every person has the right to the best possible care, supported by up-to-date and reliable information. That is why we are building a region where healthcare data is available. Safe, timely, and shared. For people, by the network. That is why we are here.

The regional data workshop Salland United is being established and first use case focuses on organizing healthcare more intelligently. To this end, Carinova, Deventer Hospital, HCDO, Dimence Group, and GGD IJsselland are the first parties to implement MPC, enabling the encrypted provision of production data.

PLUGIN allows Dutch hospitals to provide and consume data in a federated learning network.

Nuts enables healthcare software applications to communicate. Join and become part of a network of everyone and for everyone, allowing you to reach both the pharmacy around the corner and the hospital in Helsinki.

Twiin provides the framework within which healthcare organizations can exchange (share and access) health data with one another, while reliability and confidentiality are carefully safeguarded. The Twiin Agreement Framework thus forms the foundation for a single national agreement framework.

Various nursing care organizations collaborate within the KIK-V Program. The goal is to facilitate the sharing of accountability data regarding quality and operational management between care providers and information-requesting parties, resulting in reduced administration and better information.

The KCC collects data on the capacity of the healthcare landscape in the region. Through analyses and insights into the demand, supply, and occupancy of care, the KCC supports the coordination of care in the region and focuses on care for vulnerable elderly and chronically ill patients.

The Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR) is a global leader. Since 1989, IKNL (Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Centre) has been collecting reliable, complete, and independent data on people with cancer in the Netherlands. No other database offers such a complete and detailed overview of the disease progression.

Regional data platform (Snowflake) for data science and reporting on regional data. Member organizations can easily acquire their own data platform (co-house).

Minister Bruijn (VWS) informeert de Tweede Kamer over de stand van zaken van de implementatie rondom de European Health Data Space Verordening (EHDS). Eenzelfde brief is aan de Eerste Kamer gestuurd.

Our consortium of medical professionals, data scientists, IT-infrastructure experts, machine learning researchers and legal experts have designed Enabling Patient Interventions to liberate, analyse, and action that data in a trustworthy way. EPI aims to empower patients and providers.

Datapoort is a partnership and a digital platform focused on bringing together and linking health-related data to improve research, policy, education, and care. Datapoort operates in the Northern Netherlands but aims to create solutions that can be used throughout the Netherlands and beyond.

Data sharing & trust framework for regional post-natal care in the province of North Holland.
The subsidy programme financing this has finished. The initiative will continue under Blinkz.

Commissioned by VWS, we are realizing a secure data infrastructure for research in long-term care. Data remains at the source; care organizations retain control. We convert healthcare data into medical, behavioral, and policy insights that support professionals in making better decisions.

CumuluZ was founded to improve data availability in the healthcare sector, so that healthcare providers, patients, clients, citizens, and researchers have the right information at the right time.

Aedes Data Standards provides housing corporations with support for the implementation and the use of standards for data sharing.

Het Keten Control Center (KCC) verzamelt data over de capaciteit van het zorglandschap in de regio Breda. Met analyses en inzichten over vraag, aanbod en bezetting van zorg ondersteunt het KCC de coördinatie van zorg in de regio (juiste zorg op de juiste plaat op de juiste tijd).

The exchange of medical data is surrounded by numerous technical and organizational measures and agreements. These are documented in the AORTA framework agreement. AORTA describes all the agreements and rules that apply to the infrastructure of the National Switch Point (LSP) and its use.

The DIL program explores and develops the agreements necessary to make smarter use of the existing digital infrastructure in logistic chains. The Basic Data Infrastructure (BDI) is a framework for controlled data sharing, supporting automated advanced information logistics within next-generation OSCM networks.

DataFryslân is a cooperative knowledge and innovation hub for the secure collection, processing, sharing, and utilization of Frisian data by and for Frisian public and private organizations.

Stichting Datakluis is committed to creating a personal data vault for every Dutch citizen, in which their online data is stored.

A portal where a citizen, company, organization, municipality or water board may reuse the public information of the province of North Brabant. With this open data you can create your own applications, such as websites, applications and interactive maps.

De Nederlandse Vereniging van Podotherapeuten (NVvP) lanceerde eind juni – samen de podotherapiepraktijken Voetencentrum Wender, Hermanns, Innofeet, Lectoraat Podotherapie (Hogeschool Saxion/Fontys) en privacytechnologie-specialist Roseman Labs de ‘Datawerkplaats’.

One maritime framework of agreements. Together, we are working towards joint agreements for digital cooperation, laid down in one maritime framework of agreements. Digital Samenwerken is part of the Maritime Master Plan and helps the maritime sector to be ready for the future.

A collaboration with all municipalities in Groningen and Drenthe, the public transport agency and the Province of Groningen and Drenthe. The aim is to achieve an affordable and future-proof transport network that is accessible to elderly and disabled people (social inclusion). Winner of Privacy Awards.

DigiLab Toegepaste Kennis vereenvoudigt het delen van data, algoritmes, modellen en rekenkracht, en ondersteunt AI, simulaties en digital twins. Het dient het ontwikkelen van integrale oplossingen voor urgente maatschappelijke vraagstukken als klimaatverandering en energietransitie en voor innovaties voor overheden en bedrijven. Deltares, KNMI, MARIN, NLR, RIVM, TNO, Wageningen Research, Naturalis, Nederlands Forensisch Instituut en de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed werken met SURF en TNO-ISP als technologiepartners en met steun van het Ministerie van EZ.

DITM enables Netherlands to organize mobility more efficiently and safely at a national level, create a stronger export position internationally for Dutch technology, and influence international standards.

The DMI ecosystem is a public-private partnership that facilitates the responsible sharing and use of data on a solid foundation of mutual trust, clear agreements and open standards. This creates new business opportunities for a variety of market players, which in turn enables government bodies to give concrete form and substance to mobility innovation and smart and sustainable urbanisation.

DigiGO is a collaboration platform that promotes digitalization in the Dutch design, construction, and engineering sector, aimed at efficiently addressing societal challenges and fostering industry-wide innovation.

The DSI Foundation was established to ensure that the public’s trust in the investment sector is strengthened and maintained through the high quality of skills and ethical standards of DSI-certified professionals.

The Datastelsel verduurzaming Utiliteit (DVU) is a system that collects data on utility buildings, such as energy usage. Building owners can securely share this data for analysis and receive smart savings advice.

GERDA is the project name for establishing an Integrated Regional Data Infrastructure related to healthcare data in Achterhoek.

EDSN facilitates the transitioning liberalized energy market with knowledge and expertise. We achieve this by ensuring robust, transparent market processes and securely making all relevant energy data available.

Within the Edu-V program, schools and suppliers make mutual agreements – a framework of agreements – that regulate access to and use of digital educational resources for primary, secondary, special, and vocational education

The ELSA Lab develops socially responsible, data-driven solutions for tackling poverty, with public and stakeholder participation being integrated effectively into the design and approach. The targets for this ELSA Lab are anyone living in poverty or at risk of falling into poverty, anyone with debts that are problematic or at risk of becoming so.

EnergySHR, developed for TU Delft and Erasmus University Rotterdam, facilitates data and algorithm sharing to enhance cooperation among academia, public, and private sectors, accelerating energy transition research and innovation.

Rotterdam ensures preschool access for toddlers with developmental delays. The CJG identifies eligible children, and childcare organizations get subsidies to run programs. The municipality uses data to monitor and improve program reach across the city.

Geonovum is a government foundation with extensive knowledge and a rich network. Our daily work is aimed at enhancing government performance using geospatial information. We do this by improving the accessibility of geospatial information and by facilitating the exchange of geospatial information among each other and with other types of data through standards.

HDN facilitates the application, acceptance, and management process for mortgage and mortgage-related products. HDN does this, among other things, by developing and managing the standard for secure digital communication in the financial chain.

Health-RI is a Dutch initiative aimed at facilitating and promoting an integrated (data) infrastructure for health data, accessible to researchers, citizens, healthcare providers, and businesses.

HERACLES should make it possible for research organisations, epidemiologists, doctors, tech companies, patient associations, pharmaceutical industry representatives and health insurers to conduct collaborative research on lung and ovarian cancer.

IKNL activities are aimed at reducing the impact of cancer. Generating and sharing reliable and independent insights about cancer is the core of our work.

Joint Data is a Consent register and data exchange platform for all agricultural sectors.
It consists of two things: 1) consent registry, 2) API data exchange layer

Justice Link is building the infrastructure to share and analyse crime data.

Koppeltaal is an architectural software construct that simplifies communication via messages between different components (such as eHealth platforms, portals, interventions, and EHRs) and the launching of interventions.

MCPV is advancing its multi-gigawatt cell and module manufacturing scale-up implementation, to meet the fast growing demand of the European solar PV markets by stimulating data sharing across the value chain.

The MedMij Foundation has established rules for the safe exchange of medical data. PGOs (Personal Health Environments) and healthcare providers with a MedMij label adhere to these rules. Through MedMij, you can securely place a copy of your medical data into your PGO.

MFFBAS is a trust framework that aims to facilitated energy parties in sharing data and unlocking new energy applications to achieve climate goals.

The Company Passport is a Trust Framework (TF) leveraging the eIDAS organisational wallet to enable safe and seamless trade with other businesses, consumers and interaction with public parties

The National Access Point for Mobility Data is the place where governments and market parties can publish, find, and use mobility data. This includes data on roads, public transport, parking, waterways, shared mobility, and other relevant data in the field of mobility.

The province of Zuid-Holland makes as much of its data as possible available as open data. We believe that open data provides social and economic benefits and contributes to transparency.

Portbase Port Community System (PCS) is the digital connection to smart Dutch ports. PCS has almost national coverage and is available for all port sectors: containers, general cargo, dry bulk and liquid bulk. Everyone in the logistics chain can exchange information via PCS easily and efficiently.

SBR Nexus develops and manage market standards for exchanging business data between companies, organizations, and financial institutions. In addition, we ensure the availability, proper functioning, and security of the platform My Data, My Business.

SCSN (Smart connected Supplier Network) is a data exchange in the steel manufacturing industry. SCSN simplifies data sharing in the supply chain by enabling messages to be automatically sent between ERP systems of a connected companies.

The goal of Secur-e-Health is to enable different sources of health data (e.g. hospitals, insurance companies, patients) to be combined in a cryptographically safe and secure way, enabling decision support algorithms to be trained on multiple clinical datasets.

The NCSC works together with Dutch government and companies via SecureNed. It is a unique partnership aimed at sharing information about cyber threats and incidents. Based on the shared insights, participants can take measures to prevent or limit damage. SecureNed makes this information sharing simple, effective, but also preventive: what is an incident today for one person is a good warning for another.

SFC uses a decentralized architecture approach to enable sovereign and secure exchange of carbon emission data between different organizations in the logistics industry.

SIVI AFS forms the foundation for a digital ecosystem where customers can receive excellent service across various distribution chains of financial products.

Trusted Information Partners (TIP) is an initiative of private and public parties working towards a future in which citizens, businesses and government can do business digitally in a simple and trusted way. TIP focuses on digitizing transactions whose financial or legal implications are significant.

TMNL consolidates transaction data from various banks and identifies meaningful connections between them. These connections provide new insights into potential money laundering and terrorist financing.

TROEF offers a platform that allows you to share energy, provides real-time insight into your CO2 footprint, and rewards you for using energy at the right time.

The project with UMC Utrecht aims to:  Improve the identification of child abuse with a cross-hospital collaboration tool for emergency care, together with Eline van den Heuvel from NSK (Nationaal Signaleringsinstrument Kindermishandeling) – also known as SCAN (Screening instrument for Child Abuse and Neglect).