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Deliberate Data Infrastructure

Constructing data infrastructure for what comes next.

DDI constructs and maintains specialist data sources from complex and fragmented information. We bring together information from multiple sources, resolve identities and relationships, preserve evidence and provenance, and make the resulting data reliably usable by organisations, software and intelligent systems.

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02 / Position

Deliberate by design

Information becomes useful when its structure can be trusted.

Organisations hold information across systems, providers, schemas, identifiers and formats. More capable software and AI do not remove the need for reliable context underneath them.

Deliberate Data Infrastructure (DDI) constructs the foundations that allow people, conventional software, AI and other intelligent systems to work with complex information more reliably.

  1. 01We acquire it

    Public, regulatory, commercial, spatial, organisational and other relevant sources can be discovered, acquired and incorporated into the data infrastructure.

  2. 02We resolve it

    Identities, classifications, relationships, duplicates and conflicting representations are resolved without discarding what the original sources said.

  3. 03We make it trustworthy

    Evidence, provenance, methodology, history and known limitations remain attached to the information being constructed.

  4. 04We maintain it

    New and changing information can be continuously incorporated so the resulting data source does not become another static dataset.

  5. 05We make it usable

    APIs, data feeds, extracts and enterprise integrations make the resulting information available to existing analytical, operational and AI systems.

03 / Infrastructure

Systems, schemas and providers converge into reliable context through DDI.

A broader foundation

Your information already exists. The problem is making it work together.

Important information is often spread across operational systems, databases, GIS platforms, public and regulatory sources, external providers, files and specialist applications.

DDI constructs the infrastructure that turns those fragmented sources into reliable, maintained data that can be used across an organisation without requiring every underlying system to become the same system.

04 / What DDI constructs

Purpose-built information

Specialist data sources built from fragmented information.

DDI is most useful where the information an organisation needs does not exist as one reliable, ready-made dataset.

We construct purpose-built data infrastructure by bringing together the relevant sources, resolving how their records relate, preserving evidence and maintaining the resulting knowledge as those sources change.

This can include entities and organisations, supply chains and relationships, physical assets and places, products and classifications, regulatory and market information, and other specialist domains where reliable data must be constructed rather than simply purchased.

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05 / Product

A DDI product

V0 is DDI’s first major implementation.

V0 applies DDI’s data-construction methodology to the physical world, integrating heterogeneous government, regulatory, spatial and other sources around persistent physical objects.

It demonstrates how fragmented source information can be acquired, resolved, attributed, maintained and exposed as reliable infrastructure without requiring the underlying sources to become one system.

V0 resolves different representations of the same physical environment around persistent physical objects, while preserving what each source says and where it came from.

The V0 Physical Object (V0PO) provides the persistent physical identity. Existing provider and customer identifiers remain distinct and can act as entry points; they do not have to be replaced.

Explore V0 physical world data infrastructure
Persistent physical identity
  • 01Provider representation
  • 02Customer identifier
  • 03Geometry and context

Sources remain attributable

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