Enhanced Content Models is a framework for describing content models in a machine readable way. This enables services to validate objects in Fedora, and to have services understand data models and act on them. For instance, the GUI provided with DOMS automatically generates a user interface for editing metadata for any data model defined in DOMS.

Furthermore, Enhanced Content Models provide a way to define views on objects, that consists of a bundle of objects viewed as a hole. For instance, if different data objects describe CD's and tracks on CD's, a view may define a CD with all its tracks.

Also, ECM provides a functionality for generating new objects, by cloning templates.

Validation

Enhanced content models come with a framework for validating data objects for conformance with their content models. This can be enabled on ingest, as well as being periodically checked.