During the first period of OMEGA-X, the activities spin around the design of the ecosystem, the concrete description of use cases (both system and business use cases) and the initial technical agreement and choices towards the implementation of the data space.
The second period will be used for the finalization of the development phase (towards and operational Data Space ready for OMEGA-X partners) and the population of the Data Space with the data and interactions coming from use cases families, including the validation.
Breaking down per activities, OMEGA-X has sucessfully performed the following actions:
* OMEGA-X has successfully set up the promised cooperation. With Gaia-X (our prime target) the collaboration was superb, materializing in OMEGA-X nomination as Gaia-X lighthouse project. Also with IDSA the collaboration was very close, producing relevant outcomes such as the Interoperability paper for Data Spaces, where OMEGA-X led the technical interoperability section. Also in BRIDGE OMEGA-X has led the DERA 3.0 specification. WIth int:net, OMEGAX also adopted the leading role in proposing a common horizontal minimum interoperability blocks and system use cases, along editing 2 out of 5 proposed use cases.
* The first iteration of architecture is proposed, with the list of architectural modules and sub-modules, together with requirements to ease the techology choices. In addition, a full description of all OMEGA-X business use cases is now as well in place, serving as guidelines for how the data sharing is going to be performed, the description of the actors involved, the value added identified for this new data sharing and the business need that this is solving.
* A first development version of most of the Data Space modules, available only yet to the subset of OMEGA-X partners working on this. This includes the trust part (aligned with Gaia-X Digital Clearing Houses), the catalogue (including semantic part) and the contracting and logging functionalities. The connector is also under development, trying to reach the milestone of being both Gaia-X and IDSA aligned.
* A set of publications and white papers drafted to raise awareness of the project and presented in the events the porject partners attended.