Fwd: The EC initiative on Semantic Interoperability invites you to review the ADMS

At the request of the European Commission's ISA Programme
(http://ec.europa.eu/isa/), UBL experts are invited to participate in
the public review of the just-released Asset Description Metadata Schema
(ADMS).  The review ends 6 February 2012; see message attached for
details.

The ADMS provides a common format for the description of semantic
interoperability assets including metadata schemas, controlled
vocabularies, and code lists.  The team that developed the ADMS used the
UBL Naming and Design Rules and UBL's CCTS-compliant libraries to
express the ADMS in XML.

Beginning in mid-2012, the Joinup platform, implemented under the ISA
programme, will make available a large number of semantic
interoperability assets, described using ADMS, through a federation of
asset repositories of Member States, standardisation bodies, and other
relevant stakeholders. This federation of repositories will enable
semantic assets stored throughout Europe to be searched and discovered
through a single point of access.

Links contained in the message attached provide means to register
comments on the ADMS that will be discussed by the Working Group in
early February.  Please follow up using these links to ensure that
comments are forwarded as appropriate.

Jon Bosak
Chair, OASIS UBL TC