RIF-CS

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The Registry Interchange Format - Collections and Services (RIF-CS) is an XML vocabulary for representing metadata about data collections and related entities based on ISO 2146. [1]

Contents

It is a machine-readable format to describe metadata about data collections. Similar to how MARC standards are used by library systems to describe books, RIF-CS is used to describe data collections. For example, a RIF-CS record can describe a spreadsheet containing experimental results: it might contain the title, description, creator, keywords, date the experiment was conducted and a URL to obtain the actual spreadsheet. Another RIF-CS record can describe the person who created the spreadsheet: it might contain their name, address and contact email.

RIF-CS documents, containing RIF-CS records, are exchanged between computer systems. For example, a university can send the RIF-CS documents to a national database, where it can be indexed and searched. People can download RIF-CS records from a national database to use the information to find out more about the data and/or the researcher.

Model

The metadata describes the entity as well relationships between the entities. RIF-CS represents metadata about the following types of entities, which it calls registry objects: [2]

These entities are based on the entities defined in ISO 2146. [3]

The registry objects contain either embedded information or links to other registry objects. Some information is represented directly in the registry object; for example: names, descriptions and dates. Other information is represented by a link to another registry object: for example, the creator for a collection (research data) is a link to another registry object that describes the party (a researcher).

Use

RIF-CS is used in Australian universities and industry as a format for submitting metadata to the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) Research Data Australia service. [4]

In that context, collections represent collections of research data; parties represent people and groups; activities represent research projects or programs; services represent ways to access the research data collections.

RIF-CS is only a representation of the metadata. To exchange RIF-CS a protocol, such as OAI-PMH, is used.

Example

This example RIF-CS document contains a collection record and a party record.

<?xml version="1.0"?><registryObjectsxmlns="https://ands.org.au/standards/rif-cs/registryObjects"><registryObjectgroup="G1"><key>urn:uuid:7d9127c5-b97e-4474-87a3-68f2c219c609</key><originatingSource>https://www.example.com/thales/source</originatingSource><collectiontype="dataset"dateModified="2013-03-14T15:09:26Z"><identifiertype="local">urn:uuid:dec9b127-0d24-4d12-aaf2-a71e9ed29f75</identifier><nametype="primary"><namePart>Testdata</namePart></name><nametype="alternative"><namePart>Datafortesting</namePart></name><descriptiontype="full">Datausedfortesting.</description><subjecttype="local">test</subject><location><address><electronictype="email"><value>admin@example.edu</value></electronic></address></location><location><address><electronictype="url"><value>https://www.example.edu/data/1234</value></electronic></address></location><coverage><temporal><datetype="dateFrom"dateFormat="W3CDTF">2012</date><datetype="dateTo"dateFormat="W3CDTF">2013</date></temporal></coverage><relatedInfo><identifiertype="uri">https://www.example.com/foobar</identifier></relatedInfo><relatedObject><key>urn:uuid:30fda6cd-5b08-4376-a1b7-2ee40144d9da</key><relationtype="hasCollector"/></relatedObject></collection></registryObject><registryObjectgroup="G1"><key>urn:uuid:30fda6cd-5b08-4376-a1b7-2ee40144d9da</key><originatingSource>https://www.example.com/thales/source</originatingSource><partytype="person"dateModified="2013-03-14T07:14:25Z"><identifiertype="ORCID">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9501-6966</identifier><nametype="primary"><nameParttype="title">Dr</namePart><nameParttype="given">John</namePart><nameParttype="family">Citizen</namePart></name></party></registryObject></registryObjects>

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References

  1. ↑ Global Registries, "The Registry Interchange Format - Collections and Services (RIF-CS)" Archived 2013-01-13 at the Wayback Machine , Retrieved on 4 January 2013.
  2. ↑ Australian National Data Service, "Learn about RIF-CS" Archived 2013-04-10 at the Wayback Machine , Retrieved on 4 January 2013.
  3. ↑ ISO, "ISO 2146:2010 Information and documentation - Registry services for libraries and related organizations".
  4. ↑ Australian National Data Service, "Research Data Australia".
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