Individual gap analyses have been started already – see JIRA tracker for progress.  The purpose of this page is to plan a publishable artifact, a document, which includes results from the investigations.

List of specifications/activities that either define a data model or relate to a data model to be analyzed:
Described as Domain Taxonomies in the following definition

• Vehicle Signal Specification
• W3C "Gen 2" specification work
• CVIM (from Automat project)
• SensorIS
• CCC?
• (possibly) IoT initiatives

Comparison critera

For each alternative data model there are several aspects worth analyzing and reporting:

• Purpose of specification and intention of stakeholders behind it
• Content, current (and planned, if known)
• Applicability for different domains and purposes (evaluation according to VCS team
• License conditions
  
  • - > Draw conclusions about the possibility of convergence through merging data (for example as allowed by typical open-source licenses)
• ... feel free to add
• Organization / stakeholders