Introduction
Quality-X, developed by BAM in partnership with the QI-Digital consortium, is the first federated platform designed to transform the quality infrastructure by interconnecting institutions and streamlining data exchange. Quality-X allows QI actors to issue, distribute, trace, and verify digital assets such as digital product passports, smart standards, and digital certificates, creating a secure, transparent, and data-sovereign ecosystem.
Gaia-X Compliance: Quality-X is built upon Gaia-X's foundations of transparency, openness, data protection, and security. In addition, the project is inspired by established Gaia-X lighthouse projects, such as Catena-X and Manufacturing-X, and thereby benefits from the initiative's technical and legal framework.
Trustworthy digital ecosystem: The Eclipse Dataspace Components implement the International Data Space connector standard and serve as vital interfaces to the Quality-X ecosystem, enabling organizations to securely connect their data sources and exchange data via demand-actuated policies with other clients. These connectors ensure a seamless, secure, and compliant data-sharing environment for all participating entities.

Source: QI-Digital
Framework added values
- Enhanced Security and Privacy Compliance: By adhering to GAIA-X's principles and employing Data Space Connectors, Quality-X guarantees data sovereignty and secure and controlled data sharing while complying with European data protection regulations. These connectors ensure that data transfers follow the necessary data protection standards.
- Increased Transparency and Trust: Offers a traceable and verifiable platform for issuing and exchanging digital certificates and standards, fostering trust among stakeholders. Quality-X bolsters customer trust by enabling verification of the manufacturer’s trustworthiness and offering traceable digital assets throughout a product or service's life cycle, ensuring their safety, transparency, and sustainability.
- Improved Efficiency and Seamless Data Integration: Streamlines digital processes along the value chain, supporting quality-assured data acquisition and evaluation. By enabling data exchange between institutions and minimizing delays, it enhances overall productivity in the quality infrastructure.
- Accelerated Collaboration and Innovation in the QI sector: Quality-X simplifies collaboration among stakeholders by providing common data models and protocols, driving innovation, and encouraging the development of advanced solutions such as next-generation smart standards and digital certificates for quality infrastructure.
- Designed Scalability and Adaptability: Quality-X's modular design allows QI institutions to integrate their existing services in the ecosystem and also add new components effortlessly, ensuring that Quality-X remains aligned with future needs and requirements. Data connectors further contribute to the platform's adaptability by enabling easy integration with other GAIA-X compatible ecosystems and connection to new data sources, services, and markets.
Framework Components
Quality-X comprises several essential components that work together to create a seamless, efficient, and user-friendly digital quality infrastructure:
- Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC): Seamless and Secure Integration
Safely connect clients’ data sources, services, and applications while ensuring compliance and data sovereignty. As connectors, EDCs implement the International Data Spaces standard for sovereign data exchange. - Identity Provider: Digital Trust Anchor
This component securely authenticates and manages user identities within the Quality-X ecosystem, ensuring trust and privacy. - Semantic Hub: Unifying Data Models
The Semantic Hub plays a crucial role in streamlining data exchange by harmonizing diverse data models and guaranteeing interoperability across different systems and institutions. - Marketplace: Collaborate and Innovate
Acting as a collaborative space, the Marketplace enables stakeholders to connect, securely exchange data, and drive innovation within the quality infrastructure, fostering the development of cutting-edge solutions. It also serves as a central hub for discovering and accessing various digital assets, such as digital product passports, smart standards, and digital certificates, making it easier for users to find the necessary assets. - Portal: One-stop access to the platform's resources
The Portal streamlines user interaction and navigation within the Quality-X ecosystem.
Learn more about Quality-X
⭳ Poster (PDF)
⭳ Whitepaper Quality-X: A Federated Digital Ecosystem for the Future Quality Infrastructure