mapping the metadata registry environment
DESCRIPTION
Preliminary report on a survey of the current state of the art for metadata registries, present developments, the range of use cases that have arisen, and the interoperability needs for registry developers.TRANSCRIPT
2009-07-24 Harper - Registry Community Workshop 1
Metadata Registries Survey
• Distributed Tuesday, July 14• Open until Midnight, July 31• 2 sets of questions
– Registry developers / admins– Registry users
• 5 sections of questions
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5/6 Sections of Questions
• General Intro (forked)• Registry Contents (forked)• Technical Details (forked)• Registry Policy (forked)• Dissemination (forked)• Inter-registry Interoperability
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Distribution Channels
• DCMI General List• DCMI Registries Task Group
Members• DCMI Registries Community List• code4lib listserv• Metadata Librarians listserv
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Distribution Channels (Cont)
• W3C's linked data list• NKOS List *• XMDR Working Group *• CENDI Image Metadata Task Group
** Courtesy of Gail Hodge
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Preliminary Results
• Very Preliminary• 15 Completed of 51 Partial Responses
– 24 Involved in Registry Admin– 27 Not Involved in Admin
• 50 % (6 of 12) reported registry contents over 1000 entries
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Represented Registries
• Oxford Vocabs and Taxonomies• DCMI's New Zealand Mirror• STScI (astronomy)• OCLC Terminology Services• 6 Others
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Other Institutions
• Library of Congress• Ex Libris• National Univ. of Ireland, Galway• Baylor Univ.• Approx. 12 Others
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Software Availability
• 1 Commercially Available Registry• 5 Open Source• 4 May be Released• 2 No Plans to release
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Registry Contents• Contents based on 7 responses
– 70% Contain Vocabs and Thesauri– 57% Contain Metadata Terms– 43% RDF Properties / Classes
• 5 of 12 Multilingual• Highest Demand from Users is for
Metadata Terms
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Missing Components
• Export vs Viewing Data• Harvest vs Manually Add Content• Content Negotiation• XML versus RDF• Linked Data• Version Control
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Interoperability Scenarios
1. Publish Change Sets via RSS2. Thin Registries by query or by
reference3. OAI Harvestable Content
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Summary
• Linked Data– HTTP URIs– Content Negotiation– Desirable to End-Users– 4 Registries indicate as a next step
• Publishing of Changesets as feeds
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