This task serves as a parent task for the whole scope of defining a new selection concept.

One can split the task into two different aspects:

• specifying an API for a common realization of different views on the data storage
• was done in T23749
• specifying a selection concept that uses slots and signals, selection bus events and node predicates on the data storage for local and global node-selection communication
• was done in T23752

A first draft for a concrete local selection concept was already proposed in T23296. This concept is based on a "Select Node"-Dialog.

Work to do:

• use the new mechanisms to provide a BlackSwan-specific selection concept
• already done in T23297, but without the new selection concept
• using the new mechanism: T24738 for a thumbnail-selection-widget
• use the new mechanisms to provide different widgets (data storage viewer) as a selection service based on microservices
• idea was already mentioned in T23296
• done in T24195