Welcome to The Registry!
This is the home page for the Open Metadata Registry (formerly the NSDL Registry), a JES & Co. project.
The Metadata Registry provides services to developers and consumers of controlled vocabularies and is one of the first production deployments of the RDF-based Semantic Web Community's Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
How to begin
Step-by-step illustrated instructions...
If you just want to experiment and play around a bit, go on over to the Metadata Registry Sandbox. The code is exactly the same, but it's using a non-production database. (Please be careful not to kick any sand out of the box)
NOTE: The sandbox has its own domain now. If you had bookmarked the beta site thinking that it was the sandbox (and we did say that), it will shortly be a real beta site again complete with broken code, wacky ideas, and disappearing data.
Please change your sandbox bookmarks to point to the Metadata Registry Sandbox. Any of the sandcastles that you had built in the beta, back when you thought it was the sandbox, are still there.
Posted by: Diane Hillmann at
21:52 on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 GMT
As of this week, the familiar NSDL Regisry has a new name–the Open Metadata Registry–and a new logo. The name change reflects the fact that we’re no longer receiving funding from the National Science Foundation on behalf of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), but also recognizes that the Registry has become one of the [ ... ]
Posted by: Jon at
12:52 on Thursday, April 08, 2010 GMT
Over the years we’ve been engaged in a number of discussions in which the ‘readability’ of URIs was raised, either as an issue with non-readable URIs or as a requirement in new URI schemes.
At the Registry, we understand and are sensitive to the desire for human readability in URIs. However embedding a language-specific label [ ... ]
Posted by: Jon at
01:24 on Friday, October 16, 2009 GMT
Just a quick note that today we updated the version of SKOS that we provide for describing value vocabularies. This deprecates the properties that were removed from the final SKOS release and adds the many new ones. We’ve also restricted the non-mapping relation properties (skos:broader, skos:narrower, skos:related) to the ‘containing’ scheme while providing cross-scheme mapping [ ... ]
Posted by: Veronika Leibrecht at
16:19 on Monday, October 12, 2009 GMT
A prerequisite for the registering of our terms in the NSDL Registry and one of the greatest challenges for the German National Library at the moment is the translation of the RDA elements and vocabularies. Since bibliographic description is executed with a highly specialised vocabulary, we are finding that the process of [ ... ]
Posted by: Diane Hillmann at
21:04 on Monday, March 09, 2009 GMT
We’ve been thinking for some time about how to implement multi-lingual (and multi-script) vocabularies in the Registry. Some Registry users have been experimenting with language and script capability for some time (see Daniel Lovins’ Sandbox Hebrew GMD’s). But it was really when we started working with the RDA vocabularies that we got serious about [ ... ]
Posted by: Diane Hillmann at
17:13 on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 GMT
Those of you who have actually discovered the Registry and tried to add stuff to it have (I hope) already realized that we had Step-by-step Instructions for doing so. They were old, and we’d added new things (mostly Jon added new things—I just rant, nag and test), so I finally re-did the instructions. [ ... ]
Posted by: Jon at
03:05 on Saturday, August 16, 2008 GMT
It’s been a busy summer, but not on the Registry front.
We’re currently working on integrating the ARC library so we can handle RDF a bit more intelligently. This will give us import capability, a SPARQL endpoint, and the ability to express vocabularies in more RDF serializations. We’ve also made some improvements to our URI-building [ ... ]
Posted by: Jon at
21:34 on Friday, July 11, 2008 GMT
Jeepers, no posts for 3+ months and then two in one day! The truth is that I hadn’t realized the last post was still sitting in my drafts folder more than a month after I wrote it.
Moving on…
A number of folks have been interested in installing the Registry, especially since we’ve talked before about [ ... ]
Posted by: Jon at
21:12 on Friday, July 11, 2008 GMT
If you’ve been watching the Registry closely (and we know you have), you’ll have noticed that a few weeks ago we started supporting the registration of metadata schemas. It’s not finished and far from perfect, but the perfect can often be the enemy of the good and at the moment it’s, well, good enough for [ ... ]
Posted by: Jon at
15:12 on Friday, March 28, 2008 GMT
I was talking with Diane this morning about building the schema portion of the Registry and I feel the need to write down some of what we discussed.
For purposes of discussion, we have a draft schema property interface that defines some basic metadata schema property properties. We started the conversation because I was trying [ ... ]
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On Wed Jul 28 2010 at 7:37:55 PDT, Gordon Dunsire, working on the Element: has place of residence, updated the description (en) Property To: Relates a person to a country, state/province, city, etc., in which the person resides or has resided. From: Relates a person to A country, state/province, city, etc., in which the person resides or has resided.
On Sat Jul 24 2010 at 12:29:06 PDT, Gordon Dunsire, working on the Element: has audience, added the description (en) Property: Relates a nomen to the community or user group for which the nomen is the preferred form.
On Sat Jul 24 2010 at 12:16:00 PDT, Gordon Dunsire, working on the Element: has scheme, added the comment (en) Property: Includes value encoding schemes (subject heading lists, thesauri, classification systems, name authority lists, etc.) and syntax encoding schemes (standards for encoding dates, etc.).
On Sat Jul 24 2010 at 12:13:41 PDT, Gordon Dunsire, working on the Element: has scope note, added the description (en) Property: Relates a thema to a text describing and, or, defining the thema or specifying its scope within the particular subject authority system.
On Sat Jul 24 2010 at 12:08:17 PDT, Gordon Dunsire, working on the Element: has type of thema, updated the uri (en) Property To: http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frsad/3001 From: http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frsad/2001
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