It is influenced by the AIHW METeOR Metadata Registry[3] and the Canadian Institute of Health Information Indicator Bank.

[3] In 2016, the founders of the Aristotle Metadata Registry were hired by Data61 (a division of CSIRO) to continue development of the platform.

ACSA was founded by the core members of the Data61 Aristotle Metadata team in November 2017 to provide commercial support to government clients and provides a number security and enterprise features within the Aristotle Cloud product line.

In 2021, Aristotle Cloud Services Australia was a national finalist in the 59th Australian Export & Investment Awards.

Aristotle-MDR implements the object-oriented nature of ISO/IEC 11179 that has allowed the community to build extensions to the original metadata scope of ISO/IEC 11179.