Verification, Validation and Completeness Support for Metadata Traceability

• Main Authors: Darr, Timothy, Fernandes, Ronald, Hamilton, John, Jones, Charles
• Other Authors: Knowledge Based Systems, Inc.
• Language: en_US
• Published: International Foundation for Telemetering 2010
• Subjects: T&E metadata; validation; verification; inference; RDF/OWL; SPARQL; metadata traceability; IHAL; MDL; TMATS
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/605983; http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/605983

ITC/USA 2010 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Sixth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 25-28, 2010 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California === The complexity of modern test and evaluation (T&E) processes has resulted in an explosion of the quantity and diversity of metadata used to describe end-to-end T&E processes. Ideally, it would be possible to integrate metadata in such a way that disparate systems can seamlessly access the metadata and easily interoperate with other systems. Unfortunately, there are several barriers to achieving this goal: metadata is often designed for use with specific tools or specific purposes; metadata exists in a variety of formats (legacy, non-legacy, structured and unstructured metadata); and the same information is represented in multiple ways across different metadata formats.