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This was published today: https://www.ovh.com/blog/gaia-x-catalogue-search-engine-under-the-hood/ https://www.ovh.com/blog/gaia-x-catalogue-search-engine-unde..

• tannhaeuser 6y ago
  That's at least something. Unfortunately, this reads more like a program to keep academic research institutes busy and rehashes phantasies of dynamically matching service providers to consumers and policies, something that was a hot topic in academia, and academia only, during the SOAP times, but wasn't used at all in practice (even today you're using lots of yaml to bind stuff on clouds). Moreover, it doesn't use any established logic programming paradigm and re-invents an ad-hoc service ontology/taxonomy and query language (this after the EU spend lots of money in the last decade to fund research on SemWeb ontologies) and they're just using Neo4j (which is fine as a graph DB but not a standard by any means). On top of that, they're using OpenAPI and JSON payloads; this isn't a good fit when the majority of established protocols one would like to use (and that have been created by lots of EU money) are based on WSDL and XML (payment protocols) or even EDIFACT (logistics). OpenAPI/SmartBear has certainly sold their primitive JSON Schema thing well I guess (that just exists on paper or in the form of broken Swagger Java apps). Didn't they want to push European tech? Then why are they promoting gitlab and k8s? I could go on and on, but this doesn't look promising. Tbh, making an undergrad project out of this is embarrassing for French academia who has produced some of the best work in the field.