Data Aggregator

Summary

Providing access to all the data shared using the standard.

Description

Many standards consider one of the best arguments for standardisation is being able to give examples of applications that become possible when the entire data set can be taken as a whole. A data aggregator brings together some or all of the data being published to the standard and enables users to obtain it as a single data set, removing the first barrier to application development on top of the data set, and encouraging experimentation.

Prioritisation Factors

• If enough sources of standardised data exist to be usefully aggregated

• If having access to the whole data set is meaningful

Deprioritisation Factors

• If the data cannot meaningfully be considered as a whole

• If there are few data sources available, or their use of the standard is divergent enough as to make the data incomparable