Content eXchange Platform Pilot

Shared infrastructure for knowledge portals

The Content eXchange Platform (CXP) enables you to build new portals. This allows you to make content easily accessible, access information from various source systems via a single, simple connection, enrich your content, and make it easier to find and share with others. All on your own terms.

Benefits

Your portal, your choices

With CXP, your organisation can build and manage its own portal, within certain parameters. You decide for yourself which sources to use, what the platform looks like and with whom you share content. The privacy of both the organisation and end users is optimally protected.

Reduced administrative burden and development costs

The CXP enables you to import enriched content from your chosen source systems. This means that complex integrations and functionalities, such as those for indexing and metadata enrichment, are no longer required. Through SURF, we are working together on the further development of the platform, thereby saving costs.

Autonomy through collaboration

By working together using the same infrastructure, we are making content more accessible in the Netherlands and reducing our reliance on external suppliers. Portals are easy to link, and users can find their way around more quickly thanks to the shared infrastructure.

Do you have a question about this pilot? Please get in touch.

Within the education sector, we use many different systems to develop and manage our knowledge platforms. Through the Content eXchange Platform (CXP) pilot, we are investigating how we can organise this more efficiently.

By utilising a shared infrastructure, we can reduce costs and make knowledge products in Dutch education easier to find, share and reuse.

What is the Content eXchange Platform?

The Content eXchange Platform provides the technology behind knowledge portals and is not a standalone portal. End users therefore do not recognise the CXP as such.

The CXP offers reliable, innovative and reusable managed services for knowledge portals. It collects knowledge products from trusted source systems in a central location and enriches them through services such as indexing, cataloguing and assessment.

These knowledge products, such as research studies, but also teaching materials and datasets, are then made available to the various portals that use the platform.

Institutions and knowledge portals can also easily share their products with other institutions via the CXP, on their own terms. This can be done via an existing portal or, following the pilot phase, via their own knowledge portal built using the CXP.

Pilot duration

The CXP is being tested with the knowledge bases associated with SURF and Npuls, as well as with portals run by cooperative members. If the platform proves successful and the cooperative members wish to take the next step, we expect the CXP to be launched as a service in 2028.

Get in touch

Do you have any questions about the content eXchange platform, or are you interested in the technology as an infrastructure for your own knowledge platform? If so, please contact the team using the contact details at the top of this page.