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95 Citations
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Unlocking the Power of Digital Commons: Data Cooperatives as a Pathway for Data Sovereign, Innovative and Equitable Digital Communities

  • Michael Max Bühler,
  • Igor Calzada,
  • Isabel Cane,
  • Thorsten Jelinek and ,
  • Astha Kapoor,
  • Morshed Mannan,
  • Sameer Mehta,
  • Vijay Mookerje,
  • Konrad Nübel and
  • Jianguo Zhu
  • + 10 authors+ 5 authors

29 June 2023

Network effects, economies of scale, and lock-in-effects increasingly lead to a concentration of digital resources and capabilities, hindering the free and equitable development of digital entrepreneurship, new skills, and jobs, especially in small c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue “Management of Digital Ecosystems”: Dedicated to the Memory of Prof. William I. Grosky 8/4/1944–11/13/2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,935 Views
19 Pages

9 August 2025

With the advancement of modern technologies, the digitization of metering data has significantly improved the efficiency and accuracy of data collection, analysis, and management. However, the growing prevalence of data tampering techniques has raise...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
520 Views
24 Pages

21 September 2026

Data are becoming increasingly crucial to business and social digitalization, as such data have become a strategic asset that accelerates economic competitiveness and digitalization of society. In a societal context, it is important to maintain compl...

(This article belongs to the Topic Digital Platform Analytics for Societal Development Across Sectors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,589 Views
13 Pages

Building Digital Twin Data Model Based on Public Data

  • Dawoon Jeong,
  • Changyun Lee,
  • Youngmin Choi and
  • Taeyun Jeong

14 September 2024

This study aims to propose a method for constructing basic digital twin data in South Korea by adhering to international standards and by utilizing publicly available data. Specifically, the study focuses on designing and proposing a digital twin dat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research on Smart Buildings and Sustainable Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,035 Views
9 Pages

18 November 2025

Data spaces are digital realms of data and information shared between stakeholders and peer groups. They underpin several developments in sectors ranging from the automotive industry, through social sciences, to governmental networks. Digital traceab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metrological Traceability)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,728 Views
21 Pages

On the Role of Digital Twins in Data Spaces

  • Friedrich Volz,
  • Gerhard Sutschet,
  • Ljiljana Stojanovic and
  • Thomas Usländer

1 September 2023

Industry 4.0 supports the vision of networked machines in decentralized production plants across the value chain. Hence, it requires highly connected partners exchanging relevant data about products, processes, and production resources. This paper pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technological Challenges and Trends in Sensor-Based Smart Production Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,569 Views
15 Pages

Digital technologies are key resources for entrepreneurial activities and there is great interest in digital entrepreneurship. While much research has focused on the role of digital technologies in entrepreneurship and how they are shaping the field,...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,478 Views
22 Pages

Data Cooperatives as a Catalyst for Collaboration, Data Sharing and the Digital Transformation of the Construction Sector

  • Michael Max Bühler,
  • Konrad Nübel,
  • Thorsten Jelinek,
  • David Riechert and ,
  • Thomas Bauer,
  • Thomas Schmid and
  • Martin Schneider
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 February 2023

Digital federated platforms and data cooperatives for secure, trusted and sovereign data exchange will play a central role in the construction industry of the future. With the help of platforms, cooperatives and their novel value creation, the digita...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,146 Views
23 Pages

A Study on Guidelines for Constructing Building Digital Twin Data

  • Dawoon Jeong,
  • Taeyun Jeong,
  • Changyun Lee,
  • Youngmin Choi and
  • Dohun Lee

30 January 2025

In South Korea, to systematically share and operate data related to the national level of the digital twin, a reference model standard for the National Digital Twin (NDT) concept was established in 2021. This was followed by the Korean Industrial Sta...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
14,123 Views
14 Pages

Big-Data Management: A Driver for Digital Transformation?

  • Panagiotis Kostakis and
  • Antonios Kargas

7 October 2021

The rapid evolution of technology has led to a global increase in data. Due to the large volume of data, a new characterization occurred in order to better describe the new situation, namel. big data. Living in the Era of Information, businesses are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,783 Views
14 Pages

Visual Digital Forest Model Based on a Remote Sensing Data and Forest Inventory Data

  • Marsel Vagizov R.,
  • Eugenie Istomin P.,
  • Valerie Miheev L.,
  • Artem Potapov P. and
  • Natalya Yagotinceva V.

13 October 2021

This article discusses the process of creating a digital forest model based on remote sensing data, three-dimensional modeling, and forest inventory data. Remote sensing data of the Earth provide a fundamental tool for integrating subsequent objects...

(This article belongs to the Topic High-Resolution Earth Observation Systems, Technologies, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,648 Views
20 Pages

4 November 2025

Digital skills represent a key dimension of digital transformation, shaping the innovation potential, competitiveness, and long-term sustainability of the European economy. The aim of this paper is to compare the development of digital skills in EU-2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,127 Views
21 Pages

Secure Exchange of Digital Metrological Data in a Smart Overhead Crane

  • Tuukka Mustapää,
  • Henri Tunkkari,
  • Jaan Taponen,
  • Leo Immonen and ,
  • Wiebke Heeren,
  • Oksana Baer,
  • Clifford Brown and
  • Raine Viitala
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

17 February 2022

Digitalization and the rapid development of IoT systems has posed challenges for metrology because it has been comparatively slow in adapting to the new demands. That is why the digital transformation of metrology has become a key research and develo...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sensors and Sensing Technology for Industry 4.0)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,624 Views
4 Pages

Capitalism has shifted to the stage of digital capitalism with the use of digital technology, bringing new changes such as the spread of digital labor, the prominence of data value, the construction of digital platforms, and the formation of digital...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2023 International Summit on the Study of Information)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,256 Views
25 Pages

2 November 2022

The objectives of the study were to identify the relationship between big data analytics with context-based news detection on digital media in the data age, to find out the trending approaches to detect fake news on digital media, and to explore the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,186 Views
29 Pages

19 May 2022

Archaeology operates in an increasingly data-mediated world in which data drive knowledge and actions about people and things. Famously, data has been characterized as “the new oil”, underpinning modern economies and at the root of many t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bridging Digital Approaches and Legacy in Archaeology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,817 Views
40 Pages

30 October 2022

The AEC industries as well as the heritage sector are facing a number of issues that relate to the management of building digital data. Two of the most prominent ones are the interoperability of data and data longevity. In order to better understand...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,954 Views
27 Pages

13 December 2025

Data quality is known as the fitting degree of data content and formats to functions and it plays a crucial role in firms’ digital transformation. This study focuses on Industry 5.0, draws on Deming’s Profound Knowledge System on quality,...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,452 Views
19 Pages

Exploring the Use of Data in a Digital Twin for the Marine and Coastal Environment

  • Shelley Haupt,
  • Bolelang Sibolla,
  • Raymond Molapo,
  • Lizwe Mdakane and
  • Nicolene Fourie

The ocean plays a vital role in our society and represents a constantly changing landscape that is not well understood and therefore needs continuous monitoring and research. Sustainable monitoring is essential to assess both the current and future s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,430 Views
26 Pages

With the ubiquitous use of digital technologies and the consequent data deluge, official statistics faces new challenges and opportunities. In this context, strengthening official statistics through effective data governance will be crucial to ensure...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Revolutionizing Healthcare: Exploring the Latest Advances in Digital Health Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
677 Views
21 Pages

Lean Construction and digital tools such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), common data environments (CDEs), and mobile applications are widely adopted in construction projects but are often implemented through parallel and disconnected workflow...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Concept to Reality: Digital Innovations Driving the Future of Intelligent Infrastructure and Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
10,468 Views
22 Pages

Open Geospatial Data Integration in Game Engine for Urban Digital Twin Applications

  • Toni Rantanen,
  • Arttu Julin,
  • Juho-Pekka Virtanen,
  • Hannu Hyyppä and
  • Matti T. Vaaja

Increasing interest has recently been shown towards the digital twins of cities. These urban digital twins utilize 3D city models together with other data sources, such as open data, which can be accessed, e.g., through application programming interf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,433 Views
35 Pages

Envisaging a European Digital Building Renovation Logbook: Proposal of a Data Model

  • Marta Gómez-Gil,
  • Sara Karami,
  • José-Paulo de Almeida,
  • Alberto Cardoso and ,
  • Almudena Espinosa-Fernández and
  • Belinda López-Mesa
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 October 2024

Europe has set a target to become a decarbonised continent by 2050. To achieve this, intervention in buildings is crucial, as they serve as significant energy consumers and greenhouse gas emitters. This intervention encompasses two essential pathways...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges for Sustainable Building: Innovation, Development and Characterisation of New Material Products and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,892 Views
17 Pages

30 August 2023

In recent years, with the rapid development and popularization of information technology, digital management has become an indispensable part of enterprises. Digital management can improve enterprise efficiency, reduce cost, and optimize service, whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,779 Views
24 Pages

18 March 2026

This study investigates how data science competencies, conceptualized as the micro-foundations of digital dynamic capabilities (DDCs), combine to influence the development of digital business capability (DBC). Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Capabilities in Innovation and Strategy amid Technological Development and Economic Uncertainty)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,798 Views
18 Pages

Data-Driven Coordinated Development of the Digital Economy and Logistics Industry

  • Yuxia Guo,
  • Huiying Mao,
  • Heping Ding,
  • Xue Wu and ,
  • Yujia Liu,
  • Hongjun Liu and
  • Shuling Zhou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 July 2022

With a renewed global scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform, the digital economy, with data resources as the key element, has rapidly developed. This study proposes a data-driven measurement and evaluation method to promote th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,486 Views
28 Pages

15 August 2025

In the current data-driven era, effective data sharing is set to unlock billions in value for aerospace and complex manufacturing and their supply chains by enhancing product quality, boosting manufacturing and operational efficiency, and generating...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Management and Simulation of Digitalized Smart Manufacturing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,322 Views
26 Pages

7 April 2023

This study proposes a tripartite evolutionary game model to investigate the interactions among digital platforms, governments, and users to address the negative consequences of data abuse. The paper identifies that the high tax incentives and low pen...

(This article belongs to the Topic Data-Driven Group Decision-Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
252 Views
21 Pages

9 October 2026

As a new factor of production, the data element’s role in reshaping regional development patterns remains to be thoroughly revealed. Drawing on panel data from 30 Chinese provinces for the period 2013–2024, this paper systematically inves...

(This article belongs to the Section International, Regional, and Transportation Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,784 Views
18 Pages

Real-Time Network Video Data Streaming in Digital Medicine

  • Miklos Vincze,
  • Bela Molnar and
  • Miklos Kozlovszky

14 November 2023

Today, the use of digital medicine is becoming more and more common in medicine. With the use of digital medicine, health data can be shared, processed, and visualized using computer algorithms. One of the problems currently facing digital medicine i...

(This article belongs to the Section Cloud Continuum and Enabled Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
97 Citations
16,381 Views
28 Pages

Populating the Data Space for Cultural Heritage with Heritage Digital Twins

  • Franco Niccolucci,
  • Achille Felicetti and
  • Sorin Hermon

29 July 2022

The present paper concerns the design of the semantic infrastructure of the data space for cultural heritage as envisaged by the European Commission in its recent documents. Due to the complexity of the cultural heritage data and of their intrinsic i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A European Approach to the Establishment of Data Spaces)
  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
27,952 Views
24 Pages

15 January 2025

Background: This study investigates digital transformation as a moderating variable in determining the effect of digital technologies, automation, and data integration of upstream and downstream providers on supply chain performance. By filling the e...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
62 Citations
14,131 Views
19 Pages

The concept of a digital twin (DT) has gained significant attention in academia and industry because of its perceived potential to address critical global challenges, such as climate change, healthcare, and economic crises. Originally introduced in m...

(This article belongs to the Section Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,602 Views
15 Pages

Network Traffic Prediction Model in a Data-Driven Digital Twin Network Architecture

  • Hyeju Shin,
  • Seungmin Oh,
  • Abubakar Isah,
  • Ibrahim Aliyu and ,
  • Jaehyung Park and
  • Jinsul Kim
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 September 2023

The proliferation of immersive services, including virtual reality/augmented reality, holographic content, and the metaverse, has led to an increase in the complexity of communication networks, and consequently, the complexity of network management....

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
10,197 Views
25 Pages

18 April 2021

A digital twin of a manufacturing system is a digital copy of the physical manufacturing system that consists of various digital models at multiple scales and levels. Digital twins that communicate with their physical counterparts throughout their li...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Manufacturing Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,123 Views
21 Pages

30 August 2018

The competition within the digital content market has become extremely fierce recently in China. With increasingly diversified product choices offered to customers, the focus on customer experience has been elevated to the highest level ever. It has...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Expert Systems: Applications of Business Intelligence in Big Data Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
14,434 Views
17 Pages

FAIR Digital Objects for Science: From Data Pieces to Actionable Knowledge Units

  • Koenraad De Smedt,
  • Dimitris Koureas and
  • Peter Wittenburg

Data science is facing the following major challenges: (1) developing scalable cross-disciplinary capabilities, (2) dealing with the increasing data volumes and their inherent complexity, (3) building tools that help to build trust, (4) creating mech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
452 Views
34 Pages

20 September 2026

As intelligent technologies become embedded in corporate operations, data are evolving from business by-products into strategic resources for decision-making and value creation. Yet expanding data volumes do not automatically generate sustainable val...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Digital Transformation: Integrating Economic, Technological, and Societal Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,872 Views
45 Pages

Decision Analysis Data Model for Digital Engineering Decision Management

  • Gregory S. Parnell,
  • C. Robert Kenley,
  • Devon Clark,
  • Jared Smith and ,
  • Frank Salvatore,
  • Chiemeke Nwobodo and
  • Sheena Davis
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 July 2025

Decision management is the systems engineering life cycle process for making program/system decisions. The purpose of the decision management process is: “…to provide a structured, analytical framework for objectively identifying, charac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital and Data-Driven Systems Engineering: Bridging Theory and Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,546 Views
12 Pages

21 April 2024

In the ongoing academic discussion regarding what happens to our data after we die, how our data are utilised for commercial profit-making purposes, and what kinds of death-related practices our posthumous data figure in, the notion of digital afterl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue DIDE–Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,150 Views
16 Pages

A Proposal for Streamlining 3D Digital Cadastral Data Lifecycle

  • Hamed Olfat,
  • Behnam Atazadeh,
  • Farshad Badiee,
  • Yiqun Chen and ,
  • Davood Shojaei and
  • Abbas Rajabifard
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 June 2021

In urban areas, managing the lifecycle of land and property data related to interlocked and intertwined structures and infrastructure services is a grand challenge for cadastral systems. Addressing the physical and legal complexities of vertically st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,405 Views
18 Pages

14 December 2021

Accountability assessment is a highly relevant challenge for companies nowadays. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a digital acceleration in business environments, which in turn brought more focus on sustainability practices that could help organization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,630 Views
32 Pages

20 May 2025

In the era of digital economy, the open sharing of public data elements has become a key engine driving the digital transformation of enterprises. This article is based on a quasi-natural experiment using government data platforms launched from 2011...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Planning and Sustainable Land Use—2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,440 Views
15 Pages

26 December 2023

The significance of data acquisition in archaeological practice has consistently held great importance. Over the past few decades, the growing prevalence of digitization in acquiring data has significantly transformed the landscape of archaeological...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
824 Views
33 Pages

7 July 2026

Sustainability targets for livestock require decision support that is both scientifically credible and operationally usable on farms. This integrative narrative review synthesizes the broader peer-reviewed literature on digital farming, artificial in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Strategies for Sustainable Livestock Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,176 Views
30 Pages

21 February 2026

Digital harassment is an increasing challenge in higher education, with implications for students’ psychological well-being, perceived safety, and engagement in digital learning. As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediates communicati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reshaping Social Reality: Digital Societies and the Data-Based Approach)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,295 Views
17 Pages

This study investigates how born-digital memes about high-profile events can serve as rich archival resources for understanding contemporary cultural phenomena and public sentiment by using a linked-data framework. Using a mixed-method approach, this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,915 Views
27 Pages

Digital Transformation and Location Data Interoperability Skills for Small and Medium Enterprises

  • Monica De Martino,
  • Giacomo Martirano,
  • Alfonso Quarati,
  • Francesco Varni and
  • Mayte Toscano Domínguez

In the dynamic landscape of digital transformation, data interoperability—particularly for location data—is a key enabler of operational efficiency, innovation, and collaboration for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Despite their stra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,532 Views
17 Pages

2 February 2023

The increasing urban traffic problems have made the transportation system require a large amount of data. Aiming at the current problems of data types redundancy and low coordination rate of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), this paper propos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Big Data Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,551 Views
16 Pages

Supply Chain Data Analytics for Digital Twins: A Comprehensive Framework

  • Vasileios Xiros,
  • Jose M. Gonzalez Castro,
  • Francisco Fernandez-Pelaez,
  • Babis Magoutas and
  • Konstantinos Christidis

19 June 2025

The latest research highlights the need for circularity in modern industrial supply chains, which is reflected in the decisions of European and global policymakers, as well as in the strategies of major stakeholders. Digital Twins are considered a pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Twins: Technologies and Applications)

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