The ATLAS Metadata Interface (AMI) 2.0 metadata ecosystem: new design principles and features

Abstract

ATLAS Metadata Interface (AMI) is a generic ecosystem for metadata aggregation, transformation and cataloging. Benefiting from 18 years of feedback in the LHC context, the second major version was recently released. This paper describes the design choices and their benefits for providing high-level metadata-dedicated features. In particular, the Metadata Querying Language (MQL) - a domain-specific language allowing to query databases without knowing the relation between entities - and on the AMI Web framework are described.