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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.rdforhttp://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 April 22, 2006 (2006-04-22 […]

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 […]

We’ve updated the front page of the Registry to include a Registry-specific news feed from the Registry blog. You can subscribe to it right from (t)here and stay up-to-date with the Registry as we move it forward. Notes like this will be typical and probably pretty frequent over the next few months.

The registry database was updated last week, in both the sandbox and the registry, to support history tracking. This is in preparation for finally enabling timeslice retrieval and versioning.We also made some significant changes to the site layout and css, so if things still look a little funky, try refreshing your browser — most browsers […]

Since the beginning of the Metadata Registry project, we’ve been running our own web server. After a significant number of service outages this year, we finally decided that had to change…

We made some major/minor changes to the Registry software last week.