OpenDSU: digital sovereignty in PharmaLedger
Please always quote using this URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-320458
- Introduction: Distributed ledger networks, chiefly those based on blockchain technologies, currently are heralding a next-generation of computer systems that aims to suit modern users’ demands. Over the recent years, several technologies for blockchains, off-chaining strategies, as well as decentralised and respectively self-sovereign identity systems have shot up so fast that standardisation of the protocols is lagging behind, severely hampering the interoperability of different approaches. Moreover, most of the currently available solutionsIntroduction: Distributed ledger networks, chiefly those based on blockchain technologies, currently are heralding a next-generation of computer systems that aims to suit modern users’ demands. Over the recent years, several technologies for blockchains, off-chaining strategies, as well as decentralised and respectively self-sovereign identity systems have shot up so fast that standardisation of the protocols is lagging behind, severely hampering the interoperability of different approaches. Moreover, most of the currently available solutions for distributed ledgers focus on either home users or enterprise use case scenarios, failing to provide integrative solutions addressing the needs of both. Methods: Herein, we introduce the OpenDSU platform that allows to interoperate generic blockchain technologies, organised–and possibly cascaded in a hierarchical fashion–in domains. To achieve this flexibility, we seamlessly integrated a set of well conceived components that orchestrate off-chain data and provide granularly resolved and cryptographically secure access levels, intrinsically nested with sovereign identities across the different domains. The source code and extensive documentation of all OpenDSU components described herein are publicly available under the MIT open-source licence at https://opendsu.com. Results: Employing our platform to PharmaLedger, an inter-European network for the standardisation of data handling in the pharmaceutical industry and in healthcare, we demonstrate that OpenDSU can cope with generic demands of heterogeneous use cases in both, performance and handling substantially different business policies. Discussion: Importantly, whereas available solutions commonly require a predefined and fixed set of components, no such vendor lock-in restrictions on the blockchain technology or identity system exist in OpenDSU, making systems built on it flexibly adaptable to new standards evolving in the future.…
Author: | Michael Sammeth, Nicu-Cosmin Ursache, Sînică Alboaie |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-320458 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Medizinische Fakultät / Klinik und Poliklinik für Anästhesiologie (ab 2004) |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Frontiers in Blockchain |
ISSN: | 2624-7852 |
Year of Completion: | 2023 |
Volume: | 6 |
Article Number: | 1126978 |
Source: | Frontiers in Blockchain (2023) 6:1126978. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2023.1126978 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2023.1126978 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 005 Computerprogrammierung, Programme, Daten |
6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit | |
Tag: | blockchain anchoring; blockchain in healthcare; blockchain in the pharmaceutical industry; blockchain interoperability; off-chain data; opendsu; pharmaledger; self-sovereign identities |
Release Date: | 2024/05/08 |
Date of first Publication: | 2023/06/15 |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |