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• disseminate good practices on metadata management;
• encourage Member States to set policies, processes, and infrastructures for “metadata” management; and
• improve, expand and promote the federation of semantic asset repositories.

Federation of Semantic Asset Repositories

On 3 January 2013, a new version of Joinup was released in production. Together with it, a first wave of federated repositories and  semantic assets became searchable through Joinup. >> Read more

The federation of semantic asset repositories, enabled by the Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS), allows to search for semantic assets available on different semantic asset repositories on the web from a single point of access. By describing their semantic assets with ADMS, semantic asset owners can exchange the asset description metadata with the ADMS-enabled federation on Joinup and thus make available a description of their assets to a wider audience, resulting in more visibility and reuse. The asset owner can keep his own system for hosting the semantic asset while in the description metadata of the asset an access URL is included, giving the location from where the asset can be downloaded. In other words, Joinup only contains the metadata.

How make your collection of semantic assets searchable on Joinup?

The ISA Programme of the European Commission invites publishers of interoperability assets to describe their collections with the Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) and list them on Joinup. This happens in 3 easy steps:

First, use the contact form to contact the Joinup federation support team. We will organise an exploratory conference call to see how we can best support you.

Describe your assets using the Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) and export them into an RDF file. On the ADMS project, a list of tools is maintained that are available for creating ADMS-conform descriptions (see “Known implementations”).

Propose a federated repository and upload the ADMS RDF file on Joinup. Currently this can only be done manually. In the near furture it will be possible to configure a harvest URL. Note that only ADMS RDF+XML (and not ADMS XML) is accepted by the system. 

Which tools are available?

On the ADMS project, we maintain a list of tools that are available for creating ADMS-conform descriptions (see “Known implementations”).

Generating descriptions of your interoperability assets with ADMS, can be as simple as filling in a spreadsheet. Therefore we created a simple-to-use-tool that allows you to describe your assets using a spreadsheet and generate the ADMS RDF metadata with Google Refine.

Questions?

If you have any questions or need support for using, joining or any other matter relating to the ADMS-enabled federation of semantic interoperability catalogues, please use the contact form. A dedicated team is ready to support you and will contact you as soon as possible.