Delivering Valuable Data

Reliable and appropriately secure information is essential to an organisation, the basis for decision-making. When information and data is ‘locked’ in an application, it impedes collaboration and prevents owners from using that information to operate their assets.

All too often, the technologies we use, or the ways in which we deploy them, can impede our ability to exploit the data and information in our own organisations, or to share it with our supply chain partners.

The Delivering valuable data: interoperability code of practice for technologies has been developed by a cross-industry working group to address this problem. In addition to the need for interoperability, it identifies five underpinning principles which our technologies and software should deliver and the related technical requirements which will help procurers to evaluate products.

The purpose of the code of practice is to support the whole-life information needs of industry clients, in particular asset-owner operators in the public sector, and to enable the wider supply chain to manage their contractual information exchanges.

A consultation on the draft code of practice runs from 26th January to 22nd February 2023. Comments are invited from individuals and organisations from technology providers and from clients and construction / asset management supply chain organisations making use of these technologies.

You can take part by using the surveys attached to each of the six sections of the consultation. Each short survey follows the same format and relates to one of the six principles. You may use them to provide feedback on only one section, or, by completing the six surveys, provide feedback on the entire code of practice. All feedback is anonymous.

Before taking a survey, please read the supporting information which you will find attached to each of the principles. For a fuller introduction and the complete links to all reference material, please download 'Delivering Valuable Data - Interoperability Code of Practice for Technologies.'

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Interoperability

26 participants

Information created or stored on a technology should be capable of secure exchange with other systems so that it can be used and managed. It should not be dependent on the technologies or services used to produce or process it.

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Principle 1: Longevity

16 participants

Information should remain appropriately accessible and useable across asset owner-operator systems, including for audit trail, provenance or regulatory purposes, supporting activities and providing ongoing value through the whole life of the physical asset(s) to which it relates.

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Principle 2: Security

12 participants

Information should be managed so that it maintains necessary security, confidentiality and privacy protections while maximising opportunities for appropriate sharing of non-sensitive information for the public good.

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Principle 3: Ownership

14 participants

The asset owner-operator should procure and specify in contracts that it retains ownership and secure and unrestricted direct control over its asset data for as long as required to satisfy asset lifecycle, portfolio or organisational information requirements.

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Principle 4: Value

12 participants

Information is an important asset with intrinsic long-term value. Information should be created, exchanged, (re)used and updated to maximise value (and minimise depreciation) for the owner-operator. Information becomes more valuable as it is used and shared.

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Principle 5: Competition

13 participants

Information practices should enable fair competition between technology providers (whose tools create, exchange and manage information), and also between software users (involved in planning, design, delivery, operation, repair and maintenance, and management of assets).