Design & implementation of your data space governance framework
Launch and scale your data space with a solid governance backbone. Onecub helps you design, adopt, and operate a governance framework that turns intent into day-to-day practice—complete with a Rulebook and a Rolebook, both human- and machine-readable.
What we deliver
1) Rulebook (operational governance)
- Codifies who can join, on what terms, and how sharing works:
- Participation & scope: eligibility, tiers, fees, onboarding process, exit rules, jurisdiction.
- Policies & contracts: usage control, purposes/scopes/retention, SLAs/SLIs, dispute resolution.
- Compliance: GDPR, Data Governance Act, Data Act, AI Act, sector rules.
- Interoperability: semantic profiles, catalogue & connector profiles, labels/certifications.
- Machine-readable options (ODRL/SHACL/JSON-LD) for policy enforcement via connectors.
2) Rolebook (who does what, where decisions live)
- Create a transparent registry of functions and decision-making bodies:
- Inside the data space: Governance Authority, committees (onboarding, compliance, semantics, security), use case orchestrators, service providers.
- Outside the data space: sector Coordinating Authorities, standards bodies, regulators, other data spaces.
- Clear links to artefacts (policies, profiles) each role owns or influences.
3) Operating & organisation design
- Governance Authority setup (legal entity form, statutes, RACI, neutrality).
- Option for an Operating Company (collaboration platform operations & services under the Rulebook).
- Decision-making framework (one-member-one-vote, weighted, hybrid), assurance and audit.
4) Onboarding / offboarding & assurance
- Accession agreement, code of conduct, KYC, verification flows.
- Certification/label schemes; revocation & exit procedures with data/contract handover.
5) Federation & scalability
- Profiles for cross-data spaces interoperability (trust anchors, identity, semantics, catalogue federation).
- Sector alignment to avoid overlap with duplicate rule-making and speed adoption.
Typical deliverables
- Rulebook v1: PDF + machine-readable policy pack.
- Rolebook registry: ownership of roles and rules & decisions mapped.
- Onboarding kit: Accession Agreement, checklists, templates.
- Policy library: usage control, consent/mandates, SLAs.
- Compliance matrix: DGA/Data Act/AI Act/GDPR + sector.
- Compatibility matrix: standards and technological stacks.
- Federation profile: inter-space trust, semantics, technical profiles.
- Operating model: Governance Authority & optional Operating Company blueprint.
How we work
Discovery sprint
Co-design workshops
Adoption
Implementation
Operate & evolve
Why Onecub
With hands-on experience across tourism, mobility, legal, the public sector, and more, we bring reusable playbooks that cut time-to-value and de-risk your federation. We actively contribute to the key standards and building-block initiatives — Digital New Deal, Gaia-X, Data Space Support Centre (DSSC), Simpl, Prometheus-X, Eclipse Data Space Components (EDC), MyData, and International Data Spaces Association (IDSA)— so your data space is interoperable, compliant, sovereign, and AI-ready from day one.
Digital New Deal
Gaia-X
Data Space Support Centre
Simpl
Prometheus-X
Eclipse Data Space Components (EDC)
MyData
International Data Spaces Association (IDSA)