@inproceedings{20216b404b304c139684d79211f1e7ab,
title = "The Openness of Data Platforms: A Research Agenda",
abstract = "Data platforms are the keystone of the data economy. When opened up, data platforms allow data owners, data consumers and third parties to interact. Yet, openness may also harm business and societal interests. Literature on platform openness does not cover data platforms, and data economy scholars rarely study platform openness. Therefore, this paper develops a research agenda on the openness of data platforms. We explore how data platforms differ from conventional digital platforms (e.g., software platforms). From those differentiating characteristics, we identify areas for future work: (1) The specific characteristics of data require reconceptualizing the object of platform openness; (2) New ways in which data platforms can be opened should be conceptualized; (3) As data platforms are tailored to specific industries, platform-to-platform openness should be a novel unit of analysis; (4) Because opening up data platforms create novel risks, new reasons to (not) open up data platforms should be studied.",
keywords = "Data ecosystem, Data marketplace, Data platform, Platform openness",
author = "{De Reuver}, Mark and Hosea Ofe and Wirawan Agahari and Abbas, {Antragama Ewa} and Anneke Zuiderwijk",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Owner/Author.; 1st ACM International Workshop on Data Economy, DE 2022, co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2022 ; Conference date: 09-12-2022",
year = "2022",
month = dec,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1145/3565011.3569056",
language = "English",
series = "DE 2022 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Data Economy, Part of CoNEXT 2022",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "34--41",
booktitle = "DE 2022 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Data Economy, Part of CoNEXT 2022",
address = "United States",
}