| elap:PURI | http://data.europa.eu/2sa/elap/loose-coupling |
| dct:title | Loose coupling |
| dct:description | (Statement) Loose coupling ensures that data sharing and integration between organisations are facilitated through a collection of interoperable solutions, rather than a monolithic centralised IT system. This approach adheres to unified agreements across functional, technical, operational, legal, and economic dimensions, allowing organisations to function with minimal dependency on each other. |
| dct:description | (Rationale) Implementing Loose coupling fosters flexibility, resilience, and innovation. Avoiding reliance on a single centralised system reduces the risk of single points of failure and enhances the system's ability to adapt to changing requirements. This approach supports interoperability, portability, and findability, ensuring that data can be easily shared and accessed across different systems and platforms. Additionally, it enhances security, privacy, and trustworthiness by distributing data and control, making it harder for malicious actors to compromise the entire system. Loose coupling also enables faster implementation and change of digital public services by minimising dependencies between organisations. For example, well-defined public APIs (based on API guidelines) and public data models that do not expose internal implementation details are crucial for maintaining flexibility and security while ensuring seamless integration and accessibility. |
| dct:description | (Implications) To effectively implement Loose coupling, organisations must adopt interoperable solutions that comply with unified agreements across all relevant dimensions. Business processes should be designed to support decentralised data sharing, including clear guidelines for interoperability, portability, and findability. Technically, solutions must be built to integrate seamlessly with other systems, using open standards and well-defined APIs. These APIs should follow established guidelines to ensure consistency, security, and ease of integration. Security and privacy measures must be robust, ensuring that data is protected across all nodes of the infrastructure. Additionally, continuous monitoring and governance frameworks are necessary to maintain compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and to ensure the trustworthiness of the system. Proper organisational agreements should be established to ensure the implementation of digital public services without hampering any changes or modifications. At the technical level, this can be achieved by reusing existing solutions or components that ensure interoperability between services without including dependencies between them. Furthermore, adopting microservices architecture can enhance loose coupling by allowing independent deployment and scaling of services. Implementing asynchronous communication methods, such as message queues or event-driven architectures, can further decouple components, improving system resilience and flexibility. Lastly, maintaining comprehensive documentation and versioning of APIs is crucial to support ongoing development and integration efforts. |
| elap:scope | Business agnostic |
| elap:Category | Digital Public Service Implementation |
| dct:source | Design Principles for Data Spaces Position Paper |
| dct:source | https://design-principles-for-data-spaces.org/ |
| rdfs:comment | The position paper underlines the importance of data spaces and though the sovereign sharing of data in creating the future data economy. It has been combined with existing sources in ELAP related to the theory and practice of the application of systems theory in organisations. |
| dcat:theme | Organisational IoP, Semantic IoP, Technical IoP |
| elap:paGovernance | Common |
| elap:influenceInDPSLifecycle | Obligation |
| elap:influenceInDPSAttribute | Desire |