Asset Description Metadata Schema
The Asset Description Metadata Schema - why?
Public administrations, businesses, standardisation bodies and academia are already producing semantic interoperability assets that, if (re)used, can facilitate semantic interoperability. However, these are not always easy to find.
The Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) is a common way to describe semantic interoperability assets making it possible for everyone to search and discover them once shared through the forthcoming federation of asset repositories.
A single point of access for semantic interoperability assets
From mid 2012, the Joinup platform, implemented under the ISA programme, will make
available a large number of semantic interoperability assets, described using ADMS, through a federation of asset repositories of Member States, standardisation bodies and other relevant stakeholders. Through this federation, semantic interoperability assets will become retrievable and available via a single point of access.
For more information, please take a look at the promotional brochure of ADMS or for more detailed background information at the case study on ADMS
Semantic interoperability in the European Union
ADMS is part of a more general ISA action to raise awareness of the importance of metadata
management and interoperability in the European Union. Semantic interoperability assets,
available in machine-readable formats and described via a common specification, are considered a critical success factor and a prerequisite for further promoting the alignment and semantic interoperability in the European Union
