The MDSC Interface is used for creating metadata source components (MDSC). It is installed with the UNICOM Intelligence Developer Documentation Library rather than with the UNICOM Intelligence Data Model.

The MDSC Interface changed in UNICOM Intelligence Data Model 2.5 in order to support MDSCs that can write metadata and convert metadata to and from other in-memory formats, such as a string containing a script.

Prior to UNICOM Intelligence Data Model 2.5, the MDSC Interface consisted of the IMetadataProvider interface only. This interface has now been superseded by the IMetadataLoad interface, but is retained for backwards compatibility. In addition the new IMetadataSave and IMetadataConvert interfaces have been introduced. See MDSC Interface Object Model for links to topics on the interfaces. For more information about creating an MDSC, see Creating a Metadata Source Component (MDSC).