How does data sharing work?

Implementing data sharing means all private data for the disclosing participant ID is made available to another participant ID’s folders in the Participant File Server. The sharing of data is for both pre-production and production with each requiring separate requests and approvals.

Standard data sharing is one-way, that is, one participant ID gets just its own data and the other participant ID gets the data for both participant IDs, see Figure 10.

It is possible to arrange for one participant ID to receive data for more than one other participant ID, or to arrange for both participant IDs to get the data for both participant IDs.

If a participant ID shares its data with another participant ID, and the first participant ID is already receiving data shared from a third participant ID, the data for the third participant ID is unseen by the second participant ID. To make the second participant ID receive the third participant ID’s data requires a specific request to AEMO from the second and third participant IDs.

A participant ID receiving data for another participant ID does not impact the other participant ID’s file subscriptions.

There are 2 types of data sharing subscriptions to choose from, see Data sharing subscriptions.