Introducing an Enhanced Metadata Broker for Manufacturing Data Spaces

Nowadays, collaborative ecosystems and value networks have been established based on data sharing mechanisms and principles coming from concepts like Data Spaces. This data-centric approach has also increased the need for effective metadata management that enables entities participating in data sharing scenarios to find and trust available data. In this paper, a metadata broker for manufacturing related Data Spaces is introduced. It is based on an ontology that has been implemented to describe data related to Industries 4.0 and 5.0 implementations. The proposed broker is based on Data Spaces principles and artefacts that it extends by enabling semantic-based modeling and search capabilities.