Analysis of Asset Specification Languages for Representation of Descriptive Data from MDE Artifacts

In order to improve the adoption of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) Artifacts (e.g., design languages and associated model transformations), the literature points out that these elements need to be first shared in Knowledge Bases (KB) to be further downloaded, compared and integrated to software projects. A common concept used as pivotal representation between software artifacts and repositories is the Asset: structured information that provides standard taxonomies to catalog artifacts from different natures. In this work, we evaluated the applicability of concepts from two important asset specification languages on the representation of MDE artifacts: The Asset Management Specification (AMS) and the Reusable Asset Specification (RAS). Our contribution is a list of benefits and drawbacks from RAS and AMS to work as a pivotal language in KBs for MDE.