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ADMS ASSET DESCRIPTION METADATA SCHEMA SPECIFICATION VERSION 1.00 2 DOCUMENT METADATA Property Value Release date 18/04/2012 Status: Final Version: 1.00 Statement of copyright: This specification is released under the “ISA Open Metadata Licence v1.1” that can be retrieved from https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/category/licence/isa-open-metadata-licence-v11. This specification was prepared for the ISA programme by: PwC EU Services Disclaimer: The views expressed in this draft specification are purely those of the authors and may not, in any circumstances, be interpreted as stating an official position of the European Commission. The European Commission does not guarantee the accuracy of the information included in this study, nor does it accept any responsibility for any use thereof. Reference herein to any specific products, specifications, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favouring by the European Commission. All care has been taken by the author to ensure that s/he has obtained, where necessary, permission to use any parts of manuscripts including illustrations, maps, and graphs, on which intellectual property rights already exist from the titular holder(s) of such rights or from her/his or their legal representative. This draft specification can be downloaded from the ISA website: http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms/release/10 3 CHANGE LOG In the list below are the changes that were made since version 0.91. Issue Section Change Throughout Harmonised footnotes Throughout Made minor editorial corrections and corrected cross-references 5 Changed capitalisation of data types, properties and relationships 5.1 Added section to explain relationship between general concepts and Semantic Asset specialisation 5.2, 5.5 Renamed main concepts Semantic Asset, Semantic Asset Distribution and Semantic Asset Repository 4, 5.2, 5.6, 6 Renamed Domain to Theme, added Theme Taxonomy 5.2 Revised example of Asset without Distribution and Asset with multiple Distributions (ADMS 1.0) 5.3 Revised UML diagram to show general concepts, properties and relationships and how ADMS for Semantic Assets is related to that model 5.4 Added optional elements to data type code in line with definition in CCTS 5.5.1 Deleted relationship Asset.documentation and added four separate relationships Asset.home page, Asset.main documentation, Asset. related documentation and Asset.related web page 5.5.1 Added property Metadata Date and relationships Metadata Language and Metadata Publisher to Asset 214 5.5.3 Added Repository.includes as reverse property of Asset.repository origin 219 5.5.2 Added Distribution.distribution of as reverse property of Asset.distribution 5.5.2 Deleted Repository Origin relationship for Distribution as this relationship can be derived through the Asset 274 5.5.2 Changed cardinality of Distribution.Licence to 1..*, and added note related to multiple licenses 5.6.2 Added attribute id to Contact Information and added reference to vCard, RFC6350 5.6.9 Changed label to name to make it consistent with RADion 5.6.10 Added attribute id to Period of Time 6 Removed section on Documentation type vocabulary (now implemented as separate relationships) and Domain vocabulary (which was replaced by Theme). Renamed the section of Subject vocabularies to Theme vocabularies. Added section on Theme Taxonomy 277 6.2 Corrected references to ISO/DIS 25964-2 279 6.4 Added more examples of geographic vocabularies and added reference to the ISA Core Location Vocabulary. 7 Added description of RDF and XML schemas. Annex I Added annex with URIs for ADMS-specific vocabularies 1 http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms/release/09 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS ADMS ............................................................................................................................................ 1 Asset Description Metadata Schema ............................................................................................ 1 Specification .................................................................................................................................. 1 version 1.00 ................................................................................................................................... 1 Document Metadata ...................................................................................................................... 2 Change log .................................................................................................................................... 3 Table of contents ........................................................................................................................... 4 List of Figures ................................................................................................................................ 7 1. Background and objectives .................................................................................................... 8 1.1 About the ISA Programme ................................................................................................ 8 1.2 Terminology ...................................................................................................................... 8 1.3 Levels of data ................................................................................................................... 8 1.4 A model facilitating federation .......................................................................................... 9 2. Approach .............................................................................................................................. 10 3. Related work ........................................................................................................................ 11 4. Use case .............................................................................................................................. 12 5. Conceptual model ................................................................................................................ 16 5.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 16 5.2 Domain model................................................................................................................. 16 5.3 UML diagram .................................................................................................................. 18 5.4 Data Types ..................................................................................................................... 20 5.5 Main Concepts ................................................................................................................ 20 5.5.1 Concept: Semantic Asset ........................................................................................ 20 5.5.2 Concept: Semantic Asset Distribution ..................................................................... 22 5.5.3 Concept: Semantic Asset Repository ...................................................................... 23 5.6 Supporting Concepts ...................................................................................................... 23 5.6.1 Concept: Asset Type ............................................................................................... 23 5.6.2 Concept: Contact Information .................................................................................. 23 5.6.3 Concept: Documentation ......................................................................................... 24 5.6.4 Concept: File Format ............................................................................................... 24 5.6.5 Concept: Geographic Coverage .............................................................................. 24 5 5.6.6 Concept: Item .......................................................................................................... 24 5.6.7 Concept: Interoperability Level ................................................................................ 24 5.6.8 Concept: Language ................................................................................................. 25 5.6.9 Concept: Licence ..................................................................................................... 25 5.6.10 Concept: Period of Time ...................................................................................... 25 5.6.11 Concept: Publisher .............................................................................................. 25 5.6.12 Concept: Representation Technique ................................................................... 25 5.6.13 Concept: Status ................................................................................................... 26 5.6.14 Concept: Theme .................................................................................................. 26 5.6.15 Concept: Theme Taxonomy ................................................................................ 26 5.7 Multilingual considerations ............................................................................................. 26 6. Controlled vocabularies ........................................................................................................ 28 6.1 Interoperability level Vocabulary .................................................................................... 28 6.2 Asset type Vocabulary ...................................................................................................