Deliverable 5.10 Recommendations for the maintenance and upgrade of the QUANTUM labelling mechanism
Authors: Bernal-Delgado, Enrique, Schäfer, Amélie, FACQUE, Valentine, Dolanski-Aghamanoukjan, Lorenz, Jones, Monica, Proietti Mercuri, Claudio, Schutte, Nienke, Sáez, Carlos, Belien, Jeroen, Boiten, Jan-Willem, Tellería-Orriols, Carlos, Declerck, Jens, Eklund, Niina, Cascini, Fidelia, Valenzano, Regina, da Silva Carvalho, Nathan, Cruz, Nuno, Marques, Sara
Type: Project deliverable
Published: 2026-06-30
Keywords: Sustainability, Transferability, Data Quality, Maturity, Recommendations, HealthData@EU

<h3>Abstract</h3>
<p>D5.10 reports on the dedicated session at the last QUANTUM meeting with the Advisory Board members aimed to discuss on the sustainability and transferability topics of the developed QUANTUM Data Quality, Utility and Data Holder Maturity label, issuing recommendations for the maintenance and upgrade of the QUANTUM labelling mechanism, based in Deliverable 3.2 “Guidelines and specifications for the implementation of the QUANTUM labelling mechanism as foreseen in the legislative regulation EHDSR article 78”.</p>
<p><span class="fontstyle0">QUANTUM is a Horizon Europe funded project kicked off in 2024 that has developed a common data quality, utility and data holders’ maturity label, as laid out in Article 78 of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) Regulation. The main goal of this label is to empower secondary use by making data discovery – the process through which researchers, policymakers, healthcare professionals and other data users find relevant data for their work – more meaningful. Figure 1 represents the data life cycle in EHDS for secondary use (EHDS2), depicting where QUANTUM fits in this life cycle. The before mentioned Article 78 makes the QUANTUM label mandatory for all publicly funded datasets (i.e. all datasets collected, processed or otherwise generated using national or EU funds). Thus, QUANTUM label is part of the metadata fields present in the future EHDS metadata standard, HealthDCAT-AP, and part of the datasets description and discovery. Meanwhile, the Fitness-for-Purpose Assessment introduces a user feedback mechanism at the end of the data use step that further empowers Data Users in data discovery by identifying datasets that are a good fit for their purposes.</span> </p>
<p><span class="fontstyle0">As a part of QUANTUM activities, a dedicated task seeked to discuss the transfer and sustainability aspects for the implementation of the label of data quality and utility, and data holders’ maturity developed in QUANTUM with relevant stakeholders. As a result, a set of “Guidelines and specifications for the implementation of the QUANTUM labelling mechanism as foreseen in the legislative regulation EHDSR article 78” to support the transfer and long-term sustainability of the QUANTUM label was delivered (Deliverable D3.2).</span> </p>
<p><span class="fontstyle0">Deliverable D5.10 “Recommendations for the maintenance and upgrade of the QUANTUM labelling mechanism” summarizes the dedicated session that took place at the last QUANTUM meeting with the QUANTUM Advisory Board members (27/05/2026). This session aimed to discuss the sustainability and transferability topics of the developed QUANTUM Data Quality, Utility and Data Holder Maturity label and, in particular, the main recommendations for QUANTUM outcomes´ sustainability included in Deliverable 3.2.</span> </p>