Tools

Careful management of metadata is essential for the effective reuse of data and the correctness of any software designed for processing the data. Metadata may capture best practice in a domain and as such the reuse of metadata can proliferate best practice. Traditionally, most metadata is usually captured implicitly, and embedded in the software or system that use the data. Motivation for developing a tool for managing and curating metadata includes data and software interoperability, documenting metadata as models and building a platform for automatically generating software systems from models.