2025-09-11 Meeting notes

Positioning modeling approach at SEMANTiCS conference.

@Daniel Alvarez-Coello

• S2DM approach and VSS-to-VDM use case presented at the conference:

  • Position paper (Sem4Tra Workshop)-> S2DM: a Simplified Semantic Data Modeling approach. Daniel Alvarez-Coello, Adnan Bekan, Sebastian Schleemilch, Daniel Wilms, Stephen Lawrence, Ted Guild, Amir Sayegh, Chaitanya Podalakuru, Sebastian Schildt and Andreas Achtzehn.
    

  • Presentation (Industry track) → Enhancing VSS semantics with GraphQL SDL and SKOS. Daniel Alvarez-Coello
    

• People were interested and found some synergies. They would like to contribute:

  • Jeroen Wouters and Jean-Marc Acke https://elody.eu/

VDM update

@Daniel Alvarez-Coello

• Work in progress: VSS to S2DM (GraphQL SDL) https://github.com/COVESA/vss-tools/pull/463

• First full version of VDM pushed to the repo: https://github.com/COVESA/vdm/tree/main/spec

VDM communication plan

@Paul Boyes

@Daniel Alvarez-Coello

• Added my comments there.

VDM business paper

@Paul Boyes

@Daniel Alvarez-Coello

AMM fall 2025

About Data mesh principles

@Stephen Lawrence

• Working on an article about how data mesh principle might provide a framework for the data modeling.