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The Information Model of the International Data Spaces implements the IDS reference architecture as an extensible, machine readable and technology independent data model.
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Attribute pointing to human-friendly Website #392

Open sebbader opened 3 years ago

sebbader commented 3 years ago

It has been shown that all/most Connectors have a human-focused website. That resolves in the need to announce the path to this website in a manner that all IDS Connectors can discover it.

I propose that we introduce an optional (zero or one) predicate from ids:Connector to xsd:AnyUri.

gboege commented 3 years ago

I think that with all the correct and good focus on the IDS data model and machine readability, human readability/usability falls a bit by the wayside. Before it was mostly human readable, and now it is becoming mostly machine readable. Doesn't the truth lie in coexistence?

The more important IDSA/GAIA-X becomes, the more people are involved who are not familiar with it.

Personally, I think it would be good and right if there could be a /about path next to /data, /infrastructure (which could then be forwarded via 301).

This can be optional, but "advertising" and descriptions of products are very important points in my opinion. After all, in the future "almost all" digital products and services in the EU shall be represented by this.

Just take a look at every current SaaS product. The products have to be presented in an appealing and easily consumable way. Such a thing would be currently missing, or would be found elsewhere, and this place would have to be searched out at the moment using a graph that can be called up separately. For me this is not customer-focused, not customer-optimized and not in the sense of "don't make me think". And that in times of decreasing attention spans. And in my opinion, documentation that is easy to overlook and digest is also neglected, which is also an important part of communication with current and future customers. There will be offers, actions and campaigns. In my opinion, there is hardly any room for these aspects at the IDSA.

In the end, of course, it is only my opinion and only a suggestion. The future will show whether there will be a demand for such things.

The implementation proposal with the self-description is in any case a step forward, thanks for following it up.

Everything else I leave to the IDSA decision procedures.