Registry Operations and Curation

Contents

Guide for Registry Providers

At the May 2009 Interop, an action was taken up to develop a guide for registry providers that records Working Group tips and recommendations for ensuring good interoperability between registries and applications. It would also include information useful to application developers who wish to incorporate use of a registry into their applications.

Development of this guide is now under way at RegistryGuide. The plan is to use the wiki to collect the information that will go into the guide. Eventually, we would like to see the compiled information published as a Note with occasional updates.

-- RayPlante - 03 Nov 2009

Useful Toolkits and Libraries

Please add additional links to useful software below

• The Astrogrid Project distributes software modules for deploying a registry. Click on the "Registry" link in the left-hand navigation bar on their software page for the latest releases.

• The US NVO Project distribute several registry packages of interest to providers which are accessable via their registry software page. This includes...
  • VORegistryInABox -- a simple publishing registry toolkit
  • IVOARegistry -- a Java client library for querying a registry
  • IVOAHarvester -- a Java library for harvesting from other registries
  • DALValidater -- a Java toolkit for validating implementations of standard services

Adding a New Registry

Content under development; see the Registry of Registries (RofR)

Registry Curation

Misfeature

The RegistryMisfeature page reports bugs found in registries.

Service Validation

The ServiceValidation page is for tracking coordinated IVOA efforts to create and maintain service validaters, tools that check the compliance of an instance of a service to its standard.