AcMeS stands for Ac ademic Me tadata S ystem. AcMeS is a set of conceptual tools, protocols, guidelines and software to describe the output of an academic discipline. The other three data elements are relevant in as much as they are important to complement the supply of document data. The institutional data is important because institutions support the research process. The affiliation of an author with an institution can give an important signal about the quality of a document.
Institutions also support the document dissemination and evaluation process.
AcMeS aims to be discipline independent. But historically AcMeS has grown out of the RePEc project. RePEc is three things at once. First it is a collection of servers that provide structured data about electronic and printed documents in economics. These data mainly, but not exclusively, point to working papers.