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Technical Glossary

Registry Interchange Format - Collections and Services (RIF-CS)

The Registry Interchange Format - Collections and Services (RIF-CS) Schema was developed as a data interchange format for supporting the submission of metadata to a collections service registry.

• Schema Guidelines
• RIF-CS Schema:
  • Registry Objects Schema
  • Activity Schema
  • Collection Schema
  • Party Schema
  • Service Schema
  • Type Definitions
  • Controlled Vocabularies
  • Schema Documentation
  • Sample XML Markup


• Implementing a RIF-CS OAI-PMH Data Provider

Applications

• ANDS Utilities Applications Overview v1.5
  
• ANDS Persistent Identifier Web Service
  
• COSI-Framework v1.2.5 Documentation
  
• ORCA-Registry v3 Database Schema
  
• ORCA-Registry v2.4.1 Documentation
  
• Harvest Service Technical Guide

Software and Licensing

License

All of the software for download below is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this software except in compliance with the License.

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Downloads

• RIF-CS Java API

  Provides assistance to Java developers in the assembly of RIF-CS documents by providing classes for most RIF-CS elements, enabling processing of elements as objects, avoiding repetitive XML API calls

  • The API jar
  • The API javadocs
  • Example Code


• Collections Registry

  Packages required to install the ANDS Collection Registry software

  • COSI Framework
  • ORCA
  • OAI-PMH Harvester