General Information

Welcome to the COVESA Vehicle Data Model Project

Weekly Meeting: Thursdays at 3pm CET / 9am ET / 6am PT - (Zoom Link) (Subscribe to Community Calendar to stay up to date)

Slack: https://covesacommunity.slack.com/archives/C08TSBR4XLP

GitHub: 

• Repositories
  • https://github.com/COVESA/s2dm
  • https://github.com/COVESA/vdm 
• Project
  • https://github.com/orgs/COVESA/projects/16

Leads:

• Daniel Alvarez , BMW
• Chaitanya Podalakuru, Ford

Participating Organizatons:  BMW, Ford, Bosch, Renesas, Geotab

Charter

Draft Charter

Roadmap

Vehicle Data Model Roadmap 2025  

Background, Evaluation, Requirements, ....

Weekly Meeting Notes

17 Jul 2025 

Agenda:

•  Initial setup done by Paul Boyes
  • Charter - Walk through
    • Scope
    • Way of Working
    • Releases
    • ...
  • Roadmap 
  • Backlog
    • Priority
  • Engaging new participants
• Other:
  • Current open questions?
    • Charter → deadline for this? 07 Aug 2025 
    • Why are we doing this? → having a unified opinion and formulation of the intention → White paper 1st draft by 07 Aug 2025 
    • Tools and guideline is what makes this project a tangible product/artifact. How this will be socialized?
      • What are the things needed to build something with s2dm?
      • What are all the aspects that are addressed by this approach (e.g., data catalog, data governance, provenance, etc.) Cover and harmonise the fundamentals in terminology and scope.
        • What is it?
        • What is it NOT?
    • VDM? → we need the flag example application of the s2dm approach that reflects exactly what VSS is.
    • Status about Truck domain? → add it as example in s2dm
  • Understanding the s2dm approach
    • Docs should contain a tutorial step-by-step on how to work with this.
  • What do you expect from this project?
  • Next items (action points)
    • s2dm
    • vdm
    • Other
      • Complete the charter
        • Iterate over it next week.
      • Start white paper
      • Show example of truck → Paul to provide json or yaml export as guide
      • Onboard Ford to the approach