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.

 RIF-CS 1.3.0: 

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

 RIF-CS 1.2.0: (More information)

• 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

RIF-CS 1.2.0 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

RIF-CS 1.0.1: (accepted until June 2011)

• 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
    
    

RIF-CS 1.0.1 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 (download)

• Implementing a RIF-CS OAI-PMH Data Provider

 

Other RIF-CS related links:

• RIF-CS Change News - latest news about RIF-CS schema changes
• RIF-CS Advisory Board - main page of the RIF-CS Advisory Board
• RIF-CS Advisory Board (RAB) members - RIF-CS Advisory Board members

 

Advice for content providers:
ANDS Partners providing content to ARDC should also see the ANDS Partners information.

• Content Providers Guide
• Minimum Metadata Content Requirements