| AA | Account Aggregator |
| ABtC | Automotive and Battery Traceability Centre |
| AI | Artificial intelligence |
| CESMII | Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute |
| DEPA | Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture |
| DFFT | Data free flow with trust |
| DPPS | Data Policy, Privacy and Online Safety |
| DGA | Data Governance Act |
| DMREF | Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer Our Future |
| DPC | Digital Policy Committee |
| DSSC | Data Spaces Support Centre |
| EHDS | European Health Data Space |
| EU | European Union |
| ICIS | International Conference on Information Systems |
| IDS | Industrial Data Space |
| IDSA | International Data Spaces Association |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IOFDS | International Open Forum on Data Society |
| IPA | Information-technology Promotion Agency |
| MDS | Maritime Data Space |
| METI | Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| ODS | Open Data Spaces |
| OEM | Original equipment manufacturer |
| PET | Privacy-enhancing technologies |
| PPDS | Public Procurement Data Space |
| R&D | Research and development |
| RAM | Reference Architecture Model |
| SME | Small and medium-sized enterprise |
| TEFCA | Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement |
Data Spaces between Co‑ordination Challenges, Financial Viability and Public Policy