Welcome to The Registry!
This is the home page for the Open Metadata Registry (formerly the NSDL 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
20:36 on Saturday, February 16, 2013 GMT
When we first designed the NSDL Registry, part of the requirements was that it be able to run in Lynx (seriously) and be usable without JavaScript in all browsers including all versions of IE. As you will probably have noticed, the world of web development has changed a bit in the last 8 years. Lately [ ... ]
Posted by: Jon at
23:32 on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 GMT
Until lately we’ve been pretty happy with our ISP, Dreamhost. But a few months ago, after several during-the-presentation meltdowns of the Registry we determined that we needed to move to a higher-performing, more reliable server. We could have done the easy thing and moved to a Virtual Private Server at Dreamhost. Instead, we setup an [ ... ]
Posted by: Jon at
14:55 on Thursday, April 14, 2011 GMT
We’re using Benjamin Nowack‘s excellent ARC libraries for a tiny bit of our RDF management. It may surprise you to know that we don’t use a triple store as our primary data store, but we do too many things with the data that we think are cumbersome at best when managed exclusively in a triple store (a subject [ ... ]
Posted by: Diane Hillmann at
19:20 on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 GMT
As of today, the link to Step-by-Step instruction on the Registry front page has been updated (and not a moment too soon). The new link still goes to the Registry Wiki, but the link itself is different, so those of you eager users who have bookmarked the old instructions might want to take a look [ ... ]
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 pinpointing the appropriate [ ... ]
Posted by: Jon at
20:41 on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 GMT
This week, Karen Coyle wrote a post about LCSH as linked data: beyond “dash-dash” which provoked a discussion on the id.loc.gov discussion list. It seems to me that there are several memes at play in this conversation: LCSH and SKOS As Karen points out, LCSH is more than just a simple thesaurus. It’s also a [ ... ]
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 multi-linguality. [ ... ]
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On Sat May 18 2013 at 18:42:37 EDT, jattig, working on the Element: Musical director (Expression), updated the description (en) Property To: A person, family, or corporate body contributing to an expression of a work by coordinating the activities of the composer, the sound editor, and sound mixers for a moving image production or for a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment. From: A person, family, or corporate body responsible for coordinating the work of the composer, the sound editor, and sound mixers for a moving image production or for a musical or dramatic presentation or entertainment.
On Sat May 18 2013 at 18:40:43 EDT, jattig, working on the Element: Illustrator (Expression), added the comment (en) Property: If the work is primarily the artistic content created by this entity, see artist and photographer.
On Sat May 18 2013 at 18:37:47 EDT, jattig, working on the Element: Court reporter (Expression), updated the description (en) Property To: A person, family, or corporate body contributing to an expression of a work by preparing a court’s opinions for publication. From: The person, family, or corporate body contributing to an expression of a work by preparing a court’s opinions for publication.
On Sat May 18 2013 at 18:36:51 EDT, jattig, working on the Element: Production company (Work), updated the description (en) Property To: A corporate body that is responsible for financial, technical, and organizational management of a production for stage, screen, audio recording, television, webcast, etc. From: A corporate body that is responsible for financial, technical, and organizational management of a production for stage, screen, sound recording, television, webcast, etc.
On Sat May 18 2013 at 18:35:47 EDT, jattig, working on the Element: Producer (Work), updated the description (en) Property To: A person, family, or corporate body responsible for most of the business aspects of a production for screen, audio recording, television, webcast, etc. The producer is generally responsible for fund raising, managing the production, hiring key personnel, arranging for distributors, etc. From: A person, family, or corporate body responsible for most of the business aspects of a production for screen, sound recording, television, webcast, etc. The producer is generally responsible for fund raising, managing the production, hiring key personnel, arranging for distributors, etc.
On Tue May 7 2013 at 4:10:29 EDT, Gordon Dunsire (IFLA), working on the Concept: other, updated the definition (en) Property To: Frequency of issue other than daily, semiweekly (twice a week), three times a week, weekly, biweekly (every two weeks), semimonthly (twice a month), three times a month, monthly, bimonthly (every two months), quarterly, three times a year, semiannual (twice a year), annual, biennial (every two years), triennial (every three years), continuously updated, no frequency (i.e. irregular). From: Frequency of issue other than daily, semiweekly (twice a week), three times a week, weekly, biweekly (every two weeks), semimonthly (twice a month), three times a month, monthly, bimonthly (every two months), quarterly, annual, biennial (every two years), triennial (every three years), continuously updated, no frequency (i.e. irregular).
On Sun Apr 28 2013 at 17:59:30 EDT, Mohamed Berray, working on the Element: Creator, updated the domain (en) Property To: American Cartoon Prints Collection From: MODS Lite
On Sun Apr 28 2013 at 17:58:22 EDT, Mohamed Berray, working on the Element: Subject, added the description (en) Property: A free-text note about the Work, Collection, or Image, including comments, description, or interpretation, that gives additional information not recorded in other categories. For element-specific notes, use the optional notes subelement.
On Sun Apr 28 2013 at 17:58:22 EDT, Mohamed Berray, working on the Element: Subject, added the comment (en) Property: Example: Heading: "Matisse, Henri,--1869-1954.”
Link: "http://loc.gov/pictures/related?fi=subject&q=Matisse, Henri,--1869-1954."
On Sun Apr 28 2013 at 17:58:22 EDT, Mohamed Berray, working on the Element: Subject, added the uri (en) Property: http://metadataregistry.org/uri/schema/berraypolard/Subject
On Sun Apr 28 2013 at 17:55:52 EDT, Mohamed Berray, working on the Element: Creator, added the description (en) Property: An entity who gathers (or gathered) the items in a collection together.
On Sun Apr 28 2013 at 17:55:52 EDT, Mohamed Berray, working on the Element: Creator, added the comment (en) Property: Examples (personal, corporate) of creator roles are: photographer, illustrator, firm, cartoonist.artist
On Sun Apr 28 2013 at 17:55:52 EDT, Mohamed Berray, working on the Element: Creator, added the uri (en) Property: http://metadataregistry.org/uri/schema/berraypolard/Creator
On Sun Apr 28 2013 at 17:54:42 EDT, Mohamed Berray, working on the Element: Title, added the description (en) Property: The title or identifying phrase given to a Work or an Image. For complex works or series the title may refer to a discrete component or unit within the larger entity (a print from a series, a panel from a fresco cycle, a building within a temple complex) or may identify only the larger entity itself. Record multiple titles in repeating instances of the title element. Indicate the preferred title with pref ="true" and alternate titles with pref="false". For an Image record this category describes the specific view of the depicted Work or Collection, and corresponds to the CCO View Description.
On Sun Apr 28 2013 at 17:54:42 EDT, Mohamed Berray, working on the Element: Title, added the comment (en) Property: Examples of titles are: The Rose, The Moonlight, Portrait of Giovanni, The Arnolfini Portrait.
On Sun Apr 28 2013 at 17:54:42 EDT, Mohamed Berray, working on the Element: Title, added the uri (en) Property: http://metadataregistry.org/uri/schema/berraypolard/Title
On Fri Apr 26 2013 at 16:19:08 EDT, Gordon Dunsire (IFLA), working on the Concept: other, added the definition (en) Property: Frequency of issue other than daily, semiweekly (twice a week), three times a week, weekly, biweekly (every two weeks), semimonthly (twice a month), three times a month, monthly, bimonthly (every two months), quarterly, annual, biennial (every two years), triennial (every three years), continuously updated, no frequency (i.e. irregular).
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