Welcome to The Registry!
This is the home page for the National Science Digital Library Metadata Registry.
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: 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 [ ... ]
Posted by: Jon at
20:13 on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 GMT
You can now retrieve a snapshot in time of the RDF or XSD serialization of a Concept/Scheme/Vocabulary by appending a ‘TimeSlice’ to the URI. For example: http://metadataregistry.org/uri/NSDLEdLvl/ts/20060422200002.rdf or http://metadataregistry.org/uri/NSDLEdLvl/ts/20060422200002.xsd will always and forever retrieve the SKOS/RDF or XML Schema representation of the NSDL Ed Level Vocabulary as it appeared at 2 seconds after 8PM on [ ... ]
Posted by: Jon at
23:13 on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 GMT
We’ve been promising for a while now that we’d make it easier, actually a better word is ‘possible’, for Vocabulary Owners to add ‘Members’ to Owner/Agents and ‘Maintainers’ to Vocabularies. We finally implemented it today! It’s unfortunate that it has taken us so long, since one of the primary goals of the Registry is to [ ... ]
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On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 6:31:35 PDT, Leibrecht, working on the Concept: two-dimensional moving image, updated the scopeNote (de) Property To: Umfasst Spielfilme (Realfilm (live action) und/oder Animation), Film- und Videoaufzeichnungen von Aufführungen, Veranstaltungen usw. außer solchen, die konzipiert wurden, um in drei Dimensionen wahrgenommen zu werden. Es kann sich um bewegte Bilder mit oder ohne Ton handeln. From: Umfasst Spielfilme (Realfilm (live action) und/oder Animation), Film- und Videoaufzeichnungen von Aufführungen, Veranstaltungen usw. außer solchen, die konzipiert wurden, um in drei Dimensionen wahrgenommen zu werden (siehe drei dimensionale bewegte Bilder). Es kann sich um bewegte Bilder mit oder ohne Ton handeln.
On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 6:27:25 PDT, Leibrecht, working on the Concept: text, added the scopeNote (de) Property: Umfasst alle Formen der Sprachnotation, außer solche, die für eine taktile Wahrehmung über den Tastsinn konzipiert wurden.
On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 6:25:19 PDT, Leibrecht, working on the Concept: tactile text, added the scopeNote (de) Property: Umfasst Brailletexte und andere taktile Systeme der Sprachennotation.
On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 6:00:53 PDT, Leibrecht, working on the Concept: notated music, updated the scopeNote (de) Property To: Beinhaltet alle Formen der notierten Musik, außer derjenigen, die konzipiert wurde, um über den Tastsinn wahrgenommen zu werden. From: Beinhaltet alle Formen der notierten Musik, außer derjenigen, die konzipiert wurde, um über den Tastsinn wahrgenommen zu werden (siehe taktile Musik).
On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 5:58:39 PDT, Leibrecht, working on the Concept: notated movement, updated the scopeNote (de) Property To: Umfasst alle Formen der Bewegungsnotation außer denjenigen, die bestimmt sind, über den Tastsinn wahrgenommen zu werden. From: Umfasst alle Formen der Bewegungsnotation außer denjenigen, die bestimmt sind, über den Tastsinn wahrgenommen zu werden (siehe taktile notierte Bewegung).
On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 5:56:06 PDT, Leibrecht, working on the Concept: computer dataset, deleted the scopeNote (de) Property: Für Daten, die konzipiert wurden, um akustisch wahrgenommen zu werden siehe aufgeführte Musik, Klänge und gesprochene Worte.
On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 5:54:14 PDT, Leibrecht, working on the Concept: computer dataset, deleted the scopeNote (de) Property: Für Daten, die für die visuelle Wahrnehmung konzipiert wurden, wie in Form von Notationen, Bildern, oder dreidimensionalen Formen siehe notierte Bewegung, notierte Musik, einzelnes Bild, Text, dreidimensionale Form, dreidimensionales bewegtes Bild und zweidimensionales bewegtes Bild.
On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 5:46:35 PDT, Leibrecht, working on the Concept: cartographic dataset, deleted the scopeNote (de) Property: Für kartografische Daten, die konzipiert wurden, um in Form eines Bildes oder in einer dreidimensionalen Form wahrgenommen zu werden, siehe kartografische Bilder bzw. kartografische dreidimensionale Form.
On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 5:02:26 PDT, Leibrecht, working on the Element: Musical director (Expression), updated the description (de) Property To: Eine Person, Familie oder Körperschaft, die für die Koordinierung der Arbeit des Komponisten, des Tonbearbeiters und Tonmeisters für eine Bewegtbildproduktion oder eine musikalische oder dramatische Darbietung oder Aufführung verantwortlich ist. From: Eine Person, Familie oder Körperschaft, die für die Koordinierung der Arbeit des Komponisten, des Tonbearbeiters und Tonmeisters für eine Filmproduktion oder eine musikalische oder dramatische Darbietung oder Aufführung verantwortlich ist.
On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 4:46:59 PDT, Gordon Dunsire, working on the Element: has subordinate, added the description (en) Property: Relates a corporate body to another corporate body which is subordinate to the prior corporate body.
On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 4:37:52 PDT, Gordon Dunsire, working on the Element: has owner, updated the uri (en) Property To: http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frad/4013 From: http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frad/4014
On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 4:24:59 PDT, Gordon Dunsire, working on the Element: has owner, added the uri (en) Property: http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/frad/4014
On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 3:10:09 PDT, Leibrecht, working on the Element: Teacher (Expression), added the description (de) Property: Ein Darsteller, der im Zusammenhang mit einer Expression eines Werkes Anleitungen gibt oder Demonstrationen bietet.
On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 3:04:05 PDT, Leibrecht, working on the Element: Stage director (Expression), added the description (de) Property: Eine Person, Familie oder Körperschaft, die an der Expression eines Bühnenwerks durch die allgemeine Betreuung und Leitung einer Darbietung mitwirken.
On Tue Mar 16 2010 at 2:51:37 PDT, Leibrecht, working on the Element: Seller, updated the label (de) Property To: Verkäufer From: Bildhauer
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