The M&SCOI (MSC) Discovery Metadata Specification (MSC-DMS) specifies a set of information fields that are to be used to describe M&S data or service assets that are made known to the Enterprise, and it serves as a reference for developers, architects, and engineers by building upon the foundation for Discovery Services initially reflected within the DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS).
The purpose of this specification is to standardize on the set of metadata used to describe resources in Modeling and Simulation Resource Repository (MSRR) nodes and similar applications, and to ensure that the product metadata template will align with the DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS) as part of the Global Information Grid (GIG) /Net-Centric Data Strategy. All activities that publish the availability of M&S assets will need to use the MSC-DMS to support the visibility, accessibility, and understandability of M&S Resources within the DoD community and so that federated searches across the Global Information Grid (GIG) will provide consistent discovery of M&S resources . Such M&S Resources include, but are not limited to the following:
- M&S software (implements a model or simulation)
- Adjunct tools (e.g., data loggers)
- Federations of simulations
- M&S software components
- M&S services (models and simulations implemented as web services)
- M&S data (data in M&S-usable format and data produced by M&S)
- M&S data models (structural metadata for M&S data)
- Interface specifications
- M&S software design documents
View the MSC-DMS Fact Sheet
View the MSC-DMS Resource Discovery
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