IPSM Configuration with REST API

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IPSM can be configured using REST API directly or through IPSM Dashboard application.

The REST API operations are described in path section, and respective data models are described in models section.

Using REST API the following actions need to be performed to establish translation between two artifacts:

1. Check if required alignments are uploaded to IPSM instance (alignment idenifier is equivalent to name and version that is stored in IPSM-AF metadata)
2. If necessary upload reguired alignments
3. Create translation channel

Note: if one of the alignments used to define a channel should be IDENTITY (no changes are made to the RDF graph), then in the REST request for POST /channels should contain empty string for name and value of IDENTITY alignment.