About Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS)

ADMS version 2 is available here

Note: The ADMS-AP Importer of Joinup is not updated yet to import solutions described using ADMS-AP v2.0. Therefore, federated solutions need to be compliant with ADMS-AP v1.0 specifications.

The Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) is a vocabulary to describe interoperability assets making it possible for ICT developers to explore and search for interoperability assets.

ADMS allows public administrations, businesses, standardisation bodies and academia to:

describe semantic assets in a common way so that they can be seamlessly cross-queried and discovered by ICT developers from a single access point, such as Joinup;
search, identify, retrieve, compare semantic assets to be reused avoiding duplication and expensive design work through a single point of access;
keep their own system for documenting and storing semantic assets;
improve indexing and visibility of their own assets;
link semantic assets to one another in cross-border and cross-sector settings.

ADMS revision

The ADMS revision has finished with the publication of version 2.0 of the Asset Description Metadata Schema Application Profile for Joinup (ADMS-AP).

For more information and updates, please refer to:

ADMS revision page: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms_revsion/description
ADMS revision issues documented as discussions: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms_revsion/issue/all

ADMS Working Group

The ADMS Working Group has the objective to develop and reach consensus on a revision of the Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) based on change requests and additional suggestions from ADMS implementers.

The Working Group takes into account implementation experience and practical requirements from implementers in order to solve problems that have been encountered in actual implementations and thereby improve the usefulness of the specification.

The Working Group consists of invited representatives of organisations that have implemented the current specification.

The work is conducted in an open and collaborative way, and decisions are based as much as possible on consensus among the members. Discussions are conducted primarily by electronic means, including virtual meetings and e-mail and supported by an issue tracker.

Information on collaboration

ADMS Working Group: The current members of the ADMS Working Group
Mail archive: The mail archive of the mailing list of ADMS
ADMS contributor agreement

Meeting minutes

Milestones

On 1 August 2013 W3C published an updated version of the ADMS specification as a W3C Working Group note
On 3 January 2013 the ADMS-enabled federation of semantic assets was implemented on Joinup.
On 23 May 2012, the Coordination Group of the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (ISA) Programme has endorsed version 1.00 of the ADMS specification.
On 18 April 2012 Version 1.00 of the ADMS specification was released on Joinup
On 14 March 2012, a last Working Group meeting was held to discuss the comments from the public review period
On 6 January 2012 version 0.8 entered a month-long public review period, ending on 6 February
From October 2011 till January 2012 version 0.8 was developed.

Collections of interoperability assets searchable on Joinup

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