Products and data Exchange

The Products and Data Exchange, or PDX, is the collective name for the facilities that make offered and searched for data findable and available for use. With the DMI-PDX, we ensure that participants can offer and purchase products and services. Responsible and reliable are the key words. The PDX is the engine block of the DMI ecosystem: it enables data exchange in order to accelerate smart, sustainable urbanization and mobility renewal.

The PDX has five components

The Catalog
The Catalog is the showcase of the DMI ecosystem: the complete overview of supply and demand for data, services, knowledge and applications can be found here. It is an online environment, built by AMS-IX. The Catalog will be available soon. Want to know what the Catalog will look like in the future, when it is well stocked and further developed? Then check out the title.
Identification, Authentication and Authorization (IAA).
This is the access control system. It determines whether users represent a DMI participant and whether they have the appropriate rights to perform certain actions within the DMI-PDX and on the marketplaces.
Transaction module
This section handles the financial processing of transactions between participants. The system ensures that the required information gets to the right place in the right form to enable timely and complete payment.
Review
Each transaction and the parties involved are automatically and almost continuously monitored to see if they comply with the law, DMI's rules and any specific restrictions or quality requirements.
Log function
All actions within the DMI-PDX are recorded. This ensures transparency, a feedback loop and provides proof in case of disputes.

I want to take advantage of the PDX!

To do so, your organization must become a participant in the DMI ecosystem. To become a participant, fill out the form on this page. After getting acquainted, we perform a test of correctness on the request for participation. Then you go through the following steps:

Go through all the steps to become an ecosystem participant.
Complete your organization profile using the "Organization Profile PDC" button.
Request your organization's eori number from the Tax Office website. You can usually compile the eori number yourself using the "I file my own tax return" option;
Make an appointment with WeCity (Annemarie Boereboom annemarie@wecity.nl) and Dexes (Joost van Dijk, joost@dexes.nl) to be informed about each of these two marketplaces. Based on the information from the conversations, decide which of the two parties you want to use;
Determine which of your organization's employees should have access to the DMI-PDX, what task is assigned to whom, and what permissions are needed to do so. (Compiling an authorization list.);
Consider exactly what you want to offer and/or ask for in the DMI-PDX, at what price and what "policy" or conditions;
Identify which of the products and/or services you also want to offer as "Commons" that should be marked "C" in the PDC;

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Secure data sharing
Commons
Cost and payment

FAQ

Are all components accessible through one central access, or will they be different platforms (1 counter)?

We work with the "no wrong door" principle, which means that it is possible to access the entire PDX of the DMI ecosystem through different access points.

Is it checked that data is not also available elsewhere?

No, the data is not checked for availability elsewhere by default. But at additional cost, additional checks desired by buyer or provider can be offered by suppliers of the PDX.

What is the position of basic registries?

The position of basic registries does not change as a result of the DMI ecosystem.

Are checks always performed on transactions or is it random?

Yes, prior to the establishment of a transaction, a check is in any case carried out on whether the parties involved are Participants and comply with the rules of the Appointment System. Additional verification can be carried out upon request, possibly on a random basis. Also in the case of machine-to-machine transactions, checks will be carried out, on a random basis or otherwise.

Is the authorization of individuals and organizations done in the backend of WeCity and Dexes marketplaces?

For both marketplaces, review of authorization of individual Participant representatives is controlled from one central registry.

Does the same data-taking procedure apply to cities as to businesses?

Yes. Each offering party chooses its own marketplace (WeCity or Dexes) to publish its offerings in the PDX, and each offering party can formulate its own policies (review criteria) that a buyer (or its use of offered data) must meet, but the review procedures are the same for cities and businesses in the case of transactions.

How do we deal with foreign participants offering data?

In principle, a foreign provider can participate in the DMI ecosystem. This party is subject to the same registration procedure and Agreements System as everyone else. A point of attention here is that the foreign party may be bound by other laws and regulations, which may "conflict" with provisions of the Appointment System. It is up to the foreign provider to make this known.

If an external data domain is linked to a marketplace in the DMI ecosystem, then transactions within the DMI ecosystem are still subject to DMI ecosystem rules.

Building the PDX together!