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The Department of Defense Modeling & Simulation Community of Interest Discovery Metadata Specification (MSC-DMS) supports the DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy to make M&S assets visible, accessible, and understandable across the DoD enterprise. Modeled after the DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS), the MSC-DMS provides a standardized set of metadata elements to describe M&S resources, contacts, and taxonomies.

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

Background
The Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (M&S CO), which is chartered by the Office for the Secretary of Defense (OSD), is focused on facilitating simulation interoperability across government agencies and communities including testing and evaluation, analysis, and acquisition. There is great interest at the Department of Defense (DoD) and at M&S CO, to support the aid and discovery of M&S assets for these communities and services as directed by the DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy.

Versions
MSC-DMS version 1.4 is current. The specification and schema can be found on the DoD Metadata Registry in the M&S namespace.

Metadata Support Tools
The Enterprise Metacard Builder Resource (EMBR) Portal is a tool developed by SimVentions to help organizations capture and organize information about their M&S assets in a user-friendly, web-based portal. It allows users with no familiarity with the MSC-DMS and no experience with XML to develop proper metadata descriptions of their M&S assets. Many organizations and teams who wish to gain better insight into their M&S investments and manage their M&S resources utilize the EMBR Portal.