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<h1 align="center">Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST</h1>

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<strong>The Fraunhofer ISST is a German applied research institution and part of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.<br />
We identify and realize the strategic value of data by designing and implementing data-driven system solutions.</strong>
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Data Spaces • Data Ecosystems • Digital Twins • Data Management • Digital Itentities • Data Driven Solutions • AI-powered Systems
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Data Spaces • Data Ecosystems • Digital Twins • Data Management • Digital Itentities • Data Driven Solutions • AI-powered Systems
Data Spaces • Data Ecosystems • Digital Twins • Data Management • Digital Identities • Data-Driven Solutions • AI-powered Systems

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<a href="https://www.isst.fraunhofer.de/en.html">
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the LinkedIn button is the only one without a logo, that looks a bit inconsistent to me

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## 👋 About

Open source powers our mission, accelerating research, fostering collaboration, and enabling data-driven innovation at scale in smart data ecosystems. In this context, Fraunhofer ISST contributes to and collaborates on a wide range of open-source projects across research and industry.

## 💻 Projects

Our open source activities include our own dedicated projects such as:
- [Innamark](https://github.com/FraunhoferISST/Innamark): A digital watermarking library to protect text data
- [DIVA](https://github.com/FraunhoferISST/diva): A scalable data management system with an AI-powered profiling and metadata enrichment

We are also happy to contribute to various open source projects, while having committers and contributors in projects under the Eclipse Foundation. Examples of external projects we are involved in:
- [Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC)](https://github.com/eclipse-edc): An [Eclipse project](https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.edc) providing sovereign data sharing and connector-based data space integrations
- [Eclipse Dataspace Protocol (DSP)](https://github.com/eclipse-dataspace-protocol-base): An [Eclipse project](https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-dataspace-protocol) providing standardized protocols for interoperable data space communication
- [Eclipse Decentralized Claims Protocol (DCP)](https://github.com/eclipse-dataspace-dcp): An [Eclipse project](https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.dataspace-dcp) providing standardized protocols for conveying organizational identities
- [Predictive Unit Real-Time Information Service (PURIS)](https://github.com/eclipse-tractusx/puris): A short-term demand and capacity management system, part of the [Eclipse Tractus-X](https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/automotive.tractusx) project
- [OpenFactoryTwin (OFacT)](https://github.com/OpenFactoryTwin/ofact): Intelligent digital twin solution to link production and logistics data

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A tool to autogenerate digital twins from company data and enhance decision making in production and logistics systems

Fände ich treffender

- [Project Construct-X](https://github.com/project-construct-x/): Various reference implementations for a data space in the construction industry

## 🤝 Get Involved

If you rely on Open source and are interested in contributing, connect and reach out to us to explore joint research and industry projects:

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open source

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If you rely on Open source and are interested in contributing, connect and reach out to us to explore joint research and industry projects:
If you rely on open source and are interested in contributing, connect and reach out to us to explore joint research and industry projects:

- Get involved in our projects listed above via discussions, issues, and code contributions

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If we're stating that we accept code contributions, should we also in general add contribution guidelines/code of conduct and statements regarding e.g. IP? nothing for the README/this PR, but maybe something to think about as a separate issue

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- Get involved in our projects listed above via discussions, issues, and code contributions
- Get involved in our projects listed above via discussions, issues, and code contributions

- Visit our [website](https://www.isst.fraunhofer.de/en.html)

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- Visit our [website](https://www.isst.fraunhofer.de/en.html)

- Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fraunhofer-institut-f%C3%BCr-software-und-systemtechnik), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@FraunhoferISST), and [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/3ORSxf9Tpw7z5cCnrqzjh1)
- [Contact us](https://www.isst.fraunhofer.de/en/address-contact.html)

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I think the contact and website bullet point should be combined into a single one, as they both link to our website

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- [Contact us](https://www.isst.fraunhofer.de/en/address-contact.html)
- Visit our [website](https://www.isst.fraunhofer.de/en.html) or [contact us directly](https://www.isst.fraunhofer.de/en/address-contact.html)