Data interoperability—or standardized data sharing and use across organizational boundaries—is central to the production of value from big data. Using emerging health data regulations in the United States as a case study, this commentary demonstrates the importance of interoperability as a fulcrum in the governance of data-driven value production in the platform economy. Specifically, I explore how data governance of interoperability data governance: (1) is a foundational enabler of value production from data; (2) shapes processes of value production toward particular ends; and (3) intervenes in the accumulation of power through data.
Linda Huber (Sun,) studied this question.