datavarmenteet
Datavarmenteet are formal attestations attached to digital data objects that certify certain properties of the data, such as origin, integrity, ownership, or policy compliance. Produced by trusted issuers, these attestations are designed to be independently verifiable by data subjects, organizations, or third parties. The term is a neologism blending data with varmenteet, a word associated with certificates in some Nordic languages, and is used in theoretical and pilot contexts to describe data-centric certification mechanisms.
A datavarmenteet typically comprises several elements: the issuer’s identity, the data object or its identifier, the
Common architectures place a datavarmenteet alongside the data object or as a separate verifiable credential that
Standards and interoperability considerations include alignment with verifiable credentials and the W3C PROV data model, along