DC2AP Metadata Editor: A Metadata Editor for an Analysis Pattern Reuse Infrastructure

The software development process often encounters obstacles to reuse analysis patterns. Many designers do not have access to these computational artifacts by the difficulty in finding them, since the ways in which analysis patterns are documented are often precarious. The lack of both a computational tool which supports the analysis patterns documentation process and a digital repository to store these patterns affect their reuse. This paper presents the tool DC2AP Metadata Editor. This tool is a metadata editor for analysis patterns based on the Dublin Core Application Profile for Analysis Patterns (DC2AP). To support the patterns retrieval, the DC2AP Metadata Editor provides analysis patterns documented in RDF files, thus allowing the knowledge stored in these artifacts to be shared and automatically interpreted by software.