M&S Resource Discovery
M&S Community of Interest (COI) Discovery Metadata Specification (MSC-DMS)
The DoD Net Centric Data Strategy identifies the goals of making data visible, accessible, and understandable and emphasizes that metadata is needed to "facilitate the discovery of data assets". In response to the need of the M&S community, the Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (M&S CO), developed extensions to the DDMS to facilitate the search and discovery of M&S resources. The result is the M&S Community of Interest (COI) Discovery Metadata Specification (MSC-DMS).
The MSC-DMS standardizes a set of metadata used to describe resources in Modeling and Simulation Resource Repository (MSRR) nodes and similar applications. The MSC-DMS aligns with the DDMS as part of the Global Information Grid (GIG) /Net-Centric Data Strategy.
The MSC-DMS identifies the necessary discovery metadata data elements to support the visibility, accessibility and understandability of M&S resouces within the DoD community. Such M&S resources include, but are not limited to the following;
- M&S software (implementations of 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
The MSC-DMS v1.1 is located here.
You can download a zip file containing the metadata specification and XML schema for MSC-DMS v1.1 here.
The MSC-DMS v1.2 (just released) is located here.
You can download a zip file containing the metadata specification and XML schema for MSC-DMS v1.2 here.