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 COVESAData Expert Group

Best Practices

Data Models & Ontologies

Data Architecture & Infrastructure

Interface Definition

Launching starting Q2 2023:

• Governance
• Privacy and Identity
• API First
• Data Model Definition

Vehicle Signal Specification (VSS): A common approach for describing vehicle data and is a widely adopted, developer-friendly, extensible data model and catalog with industry-supported tooling.

Vehicle Signal Specification Ontology (VSSo): Facilitates the use of VSS in analytics and services.Focus on technologies (software), patterns, and practices involved in the transfer and use of the COVESA standard data and services description models with the goal of making their adoption quicker and easier.

Data Architecture Terminology: 

Vehicle API: Exposes vehicle data as defined and described by VSS to a variety of agreed upon touch-points in and out of the vehicle.

Vehicle Service Catalog (VSC): A standardized, extensible vehicle service catalog and associated tools to enable protocol, language, and specification-agnostic interoperability between ECUs, infotainment, and cloud.

Vehicle Information Service Specification: A joint effort between W3C and COVESA hosted by W3C. It is a service for accessing vehicle information, signals from sensors on control units within a vehicle's network. It exposes this information using COVESA VSS.