Participant.legalForm is mandatory but should be optional

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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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Participant.legalForm is mandatory but should be optional #534

Closed sebbader closed 2 years ago

sebbader commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/International-Data-Spaces-Association/InformationModel/blob/018abfe8a1e96ac842cccc99d4ae1dddfdc838cc/testing/participant/ParticipantShape.ttl#L110 states that Participant.legalForm has cardinality min 1 and max 1 --> is mandatory. However, there are many use cases where I want to speak about an IDS Participant without even knowing his legalForm. Therefore, I am voting to remove the min 1 line.

JohannesLipp commented 2 years ago

That might be inspired by recent Gaia-X development, which however only introduced this for provider but not for participants in general. We might therefore set this to optional (e.g., sh:minCount 0) in this general context indeed.

changqin26 commented 2 years ago

I will create a branch to adjust this.