Name of the participant: Christoph H.-J. Braun
Description of the IT-research project: Today’s logistics and value-added networks face the challenge of operating not only efficiently but also transparently and verifiably. Companies are confronted with increasing requirements for the documentation of products and workflows, both from the customer side and the regulatory side: from proof of the food cold chain to international invoice verification for individual screws. Especially in cross-company workflows the required transparency and auditability proves to be a challenging task.
By using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), cross-company workflows can be modeled and technically implemented in such a way that workflow-related information can be provided in a transparent and verifiable manner. However, the technology is currently facing problems, especially in the area of scalability and data protection, which are hindering a broad adaptation of the technology in industry. Using linked data to represent information in a semantic data model and outside the ledger can help to overcome these problems of DLTs: Data sovereignty is created and the computing and data load of the ledger is reduced.
The aim of the project is to develop a solution that ensures transparency and verifiability of information in the context of workflow management and execution by linking distributed ledger and linked data. With the help of this solution, it should be possible to implement cross-company workflows in a comprehensible manner. In addition, workflow-related information is to be provided in a transparent and verifiable manner.
Software Campus partners: KIT, DATEV
Implementation period: 1.4.2020 bis 31.3.2021