This document serves as the first version of the SEDIMARK architecture aiming to provide an in-depth description of various architectural views and the roadmap on how the views were extracted. The main goal is to provide an architecture that supports the main concepts of SEDIMARK for full decentralisation, trustworthiness, intelligence, data quality and interoperability. This document is considered as one of the main deliverables of the project, because the main technical and evaluation activities will be based on the description of the functional components of the architecture and their interactions. SEDIMARK follows the concept of agile innovation-driven methodology for the development of the decentralised marketplace. This means that the architecture document should be considered as a “live” document that will be continuously updated and improved as the technical development and testing activities of the rest of the workpackages will evolve, aiming to identify omissions or issues with the initial architecture draft, so that these can be fixed by adapting the components or by adding missing components and removing components that are either not useful or duplicated. A new version of the SEDIMARK architecture will be provided in Month 24 (September 2024) in the Deliverable D2.3.
Considering that this document does not provide a fully functional architectural framework, but rather only a high-level document presenting initial concepts and ideas (not tested), it is intended for a limited audience, primarily for the project consortium to use it for driving the technical activities of the project in the rest of the work packages. Additionally, other researchers and developers in the areas of interest of the project will also find interesting ideas about developing decentralised data and services marketplaces. Moreover, EU initiatives and other research projects should consider the contents of the deliverable in order to help derive common architectures and concepts for creating data spaces and building marketplaces on top of them focusing on improved trustworthiness, data quality and intelligence.
This document, along with all the public deliverables and documents produced by SEDIMARK, can be found in the Publications & Resources section.
