Data Schema

Datasets 🔗︎ click to copy

Information in a member's Personal Data Store (PDS) is stored as a series of datasets. There are two basic types of datasets Metadata and Transactional.

A Metadata Dataset might, for example, represent information pertaining to the member's driver's licence, passport or house. A member can also have multiple instances of a dataset. For instance, a member may have a second instance of the 'Bank Account' dataset containing details of a second bank account.

A Transactional Dataset While some datasets change infrequently like the ones listed above, other datasets are updated constantly. Examples include browser history, bank transactions, and the call records in your mobile bill. These are referred to as Transactional Datasets. The distinctions between an API call made to a regular Dataset and a Transactional Dataset are given in the Personal Data eXchange API table.

Control over access 🔗︎ click to copy

Each member has control over how Subscriber organisations and services access their datasets through a Data Sharing Agreement then creates the rules for the secure connection.

Only the datasets included in the Data Sharing Agreement can be accessed either for delivery of data or collection of data. As part of the Data Sharing Agreement a Subscriber organisation or services declares the specific use cases for the data and makes a GDPR declaration.

Only the member can approve a data sharing agreement.

Subscriber organisations can set up data sharing agreements via our connection manager application by requesting a dedicated connection unique to their service.

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