FYI: Gaia-X used YAML files as SSoT

[JohannesLipp]

Very good blog article in addition to the SEMIC Style Guide 1.0.0!

I would like to comment on the section where the next steps are motivated ("How such a comprehensive conceptual model should be expressed [...] is something that ought to be formally defined. This idea was suggested in multiple interviews.").

In the scope of Gaia-X, the Service Characteristics group (including @moosmannp, @clange, me, and others) proposed and effectively used YAML files as SSoT. They proved to be a promising tradeoff between UML (easy & visual, but weak in features) and RDF (mature & complete, but complex and unhandy). IMHO, it would make sense to include this in the future work of the blog article and at SEMIC.

Resources:

• Repository link: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/xfsc/self-description-tooling/sd-schemas/sd-schemas
• Deeplink to SPoT (was named "Single Point of Truth" but refers to the same concept as SSoT) with examples and documentation: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/xfsc/self-description-tooling/sd-schemas/sd-schemas/-/tree/main/single-point-of-truth/yaml?ref_type=heads

[JohannesLipp]

FYI: Could not add the label Blog-SSoT myself due to access limitations.