Abstract: Technologies are disclosed herein that include an embodiment for determining attributes associated with an instrumented entity, determining contract terms for access rights to instrument data associated with the instrumented entity, and creating a data offering for the access rights, where the access rights are based, at least in part, on the attributes and the contract terms. The embodiment further includes publishing the data offering, and providing evidence of rights to a primary data consumer system if a purchased request for the access rights is accepted, where the evidence of rights indicates the access rights are purchased. In more specific embodiments, the access rights include allowing an endpoint to receive the instrument data in real-time when the endpoint presents the evidence of rights.

Abstract: Techniques are provided to perform skills, expertise, abilities and interests tagging in in a software (e.g., social networking) environment. Interactions of a user are monitored in a software environment in which information about users is collected based upon user actions. Textual information about or derived from an interaction of the user is obtained. A skill noun is determined from the textual information obtained for the interaction. The determined skill noun and a skill verb are combined to form a user skill tag. A profile of the user is updated with the user skill tag.