2025-10-09 Meeting notes

Data mesh pitch

@Stephen Lawrence

• Data mesh principles are complementary to the work its been doing

• Decentralized approach at scale

• Discussion article of how the principles can be applied to COVESA https://github.com/slawr/vss-otaku/blob/data-mesh-article/frameworks/data-mesh/applying-data-mesh-principles-to-vss-vdm.md

On-boarding presentation

@Daniel Alvarez-Coello

@Paul Boyes

• VDM and S2DM were presented to the Japanese stakeholders

  • Link to the presentation hosted on YouTube

• Feedback

  • Japan Automotive Software Platform and Architecture (JasPar) is interested and a follow-up discussion is expected (not yet planned)

• Strategy from COVESA side?

  • Setup a meeting at a time that suits Japan → No problem at all.

  • Not necessarily a weekly meeting, but a monthly could work!

  • Engage them

• Purpose?

  • Agreement and standardization for

    • Methodology (i.e., S2DM)

    • Domain data model (i.e., VDM)

VDM scope

@Daniel Alvarez-Coello

• Proposal:

  • Import VSS to VDM

  • Import a standard person data model (e.g., FOAF ontology)

    • Comments:

      • One must be careful with personal data (or metadata) because of privacy concerns

      • Can we reuse only parts of it?

  • Model a custom part. e.g., charging sessions?

FAQs

@Daniel Alvarez-Coello

• To be documented in the github repo!

• Possible questions?

  • How does VDM relate to VSS?

  • How does VDM differ from VSS?

  • When not to use S2DM?

How to guides

@Daniel Alvarez-Coello

• What tutorials would you like to have?

  • How to migrate an existing vspec project?

• AMM

  • VDM topics 10-12:30

    • Session 1

      • Intro

    • Session 2

      • Hands on demos