Technical Resources for Content Providers
Registry Interchange Format - Collections and Services (RIF-CS)
RIF-CS (Registry Interchange Format - Collections and Services) is a metadata exchange format for collections registries. It is used to describe Collections, Services, Activties and Parties within the Australian Research Data Commons.
- RIF-CS Documentation (including RIF-CS 1.0.1 and RIF-CS 1.2.0)
More information : RIF-CS Advisory Board, RIF-CS Schema Changes News
Collections Registry
The software that runs the ANDS Collections Registry (Register My Data, Publish My Data, Research Data Australia) is called ORCA.
- ORCA-Registry v3 Database Schema
- ORCA-Registry v3.6 Database Schema
- ORCA-Registry v2.4.1 Documentation
- Harvest Service Technical Guide
- ORCA Assessment Workflow Technical Guide
Persistent Identifier Services
Identify My Data
This documentation explains how to use Identify My Data to allocate and maintain ANDS persistent identifiers by web service calls.
- ANDS Persistent Identifier Web Service
- ANDS PID client (Developed by CSIRO): A generic Java client library for accessing the ANDS Persistent Identifier service.
Cite My Data
The ANDS Cite My Data service allows research organisations to assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to research datasets or collections.
Data Connections Identifier Infrastructure
People and organisations (ARDC Party Infrastructure)
Activities and projects (ARDC Activity Infrastructure)
Prototype Controlled Vocabulary Service
This service is designed for Australian organisations managing research datasets that require use of controlled vocabulary terms in their data or metadata values.
- Prototype Controlled Vocabulary Service information
- Prototype Controlled Vocabulary Service technical documentation [PDF]
Licensing
All of the software for download on this page 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
COSI/ORCA Package
The COSI/ORCA package is intended for the developers who wish to provide a local collections registry within their institution. The COSI Framework is a required component of ORCA.
RIF-CS Java API
The RIF-CS Java API assists Java developers to build and manipulate RIF-CS objects, avoiding repetitive XML API calls.
See also
- Latest ANDS Online Services News
- Technical Glossary
- Implementing an OAI-PMH RIF-CS Provider
- Software solutions
- ANDS Online Services Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
ANDS Partners providing content to ARDC should also see the ANDS Partners information.
