The Digital Europe Programme action is still improving the Re3gistry software and has supported the preparation of the study and the implementation of the “Federation of registries”, a missing item in the software market.
The Register federation tool allows registering extensions and externally governed "references codes" from any source in a single place.
The tool is technologically neutral, only requiring data to use the RoR specifications.
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Features
- It is fully compatible with the Re3gistry (v2 onwards) that provides on-demand RoR descriptor formats.
- Descriptors files provide metadata and data about the registries and registers and their relationships to be included in the federation in an RDF/XML document.
- The tool allows searching in the different registers and the items in them.
- The RoR can be accessed using the graphical user interface and/or API.
- This tool helps to put together information from reference code systems without impacting their technical setting. Only a common descriptor file is needed to be exchanged.
- Complex data ecosystems, in general, as well as the forthcoming European Data Spaces, could benefit from this tool to foster semantical interoperability across organisations.
RoR descriptor file
RoR stands for Register of Registers.
This specification is based on:
- The W3C Data Catalog vocabulary (DCAT) is used to model entity registry (dcat:Catalog).
- The W3C Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is used to model entity register (skos:ConceptScheme) and item (skos:Concept).
More info on the RoR can be found here.
Background
Born as a test bed to bring together national extensions of INSPIRE data models in a single place.
The testbed comprised:
- the tool,
- best practice document and,
- conformance classes for the RoR Descriptor files.
You can play with the tesbed supporting the INSPIRE implementations that require code list extensions:
