Orchestrator¶
An orchestrator is an entity within a digital ecosystem which is providing a certain set of services the ecosystem deems necessary or relevant.
Additional Information¶
These services may be of a strategic/business or technical nature and may be distributed to different orchestrators. These services facilitate the interplay of participants in a data space, enabling them to engage in (commercial) data-sharing relationships of all sorts and shapes. They can perform an intermediary role in the data space.
Examples: - GXDCH instances are non-exclusive, interchangeable, and operated by multiple market operators from different geographical locations and different industries. Such providers then have the role of Federator. [Gaia-X Architecture Document]
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Trusted Service Operator (TSO) are Gaia-X Providers that have been approved by the ecosystem governance authority to authoritatively provide one or more services to the ecosystem. [Gaia-X Architecture Document]
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Data space intermediary - A data space participant that provides one or more enabling services while not directly participating in the data transactions itself. [DSSC Glossary]