Vocabularies for Registry Schema

Activity Type (activity)

• award: something given to recognize excellence in a certain field
• course: education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
• event: something that happens at a particular place or time as an organized activity with participants or an audience
• program: system of activities intended to meet a public need
• project: piece of work that is undertaken or attempted, with a start and end date and defined objectives

Collection Type (collection)

• catalogueOrIndex: collection of resource descriptions describing the content of one or more repositories or collective works
• collection: compiled content created as separate and independent works and assembled into a collective whole for distribution and use
• registry: collection of registry objects compiled to support the business of a given community
• repository: collection of physical or digital objects compiled for information and documentation purposes and/or for storage and safekeeping

Party Type (party)

• group: one or more persons acting as a family, group, association, partnership or corporation
• person: human being or identity assumed by one or more human beings

Service Type (service)

• harvest-oaipmh
• search-http
• search-opensearch
• search-sru
• search-srw
• search-z3950
• syndicate-atom
• syndicate-rss

Description Type (activity collection party service)

• brief: short account for selection purposes
• full: full account
• logo: symbol used as an identifying mark
• rights: (collections only) information about rights held in and over the collection

Spatial Type (activity collection party service)

• gml: OpenGIS Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard
• gpx: the GPS Exchange Format
• iso31661: ISO 3166-1 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes
• iso31662: Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 2: Country subdivision codes
• kml: Keyhole Markup Language developed for use with Google Earth
• dcmiPoint: spatial location information specified in DCMI Point notation
• text: free-text representation of spatial location

Physical Address Type (activity collection party service)

• streetAddress: address where the registry object is physically located
• postalAddress: address where mail for the registry object should be directed

Activity Relation Type (activity)

• hasAssociationWith: has an unspecified relationship with the related activity
• hasOutput: delivers materials in the related collection
• hasPart: contains the related activity
• hasParticipant: is undertaken by the related party
• isFundedBy: receives monetary or in-kind aid from the related program
• isManagedBy: is organised and/or delivered by the related party
• isOwnedBy: legally belongs to the related party
• isPartOf: is contained in the related activity

Collection Relation Type (collection)

• describes: is a catalogue for, or index of, of items in the related collection
• hasPart: contains the related collection
• hasAssociationWith: has an undefined relationship with the related collection
• hasCollector: has been aggregated by the related party
• isDescribedBy: is catalogued or indexed by the related collection
• isLocatedIn: is held in the related repository
• isLocationFor: is the repository where the related collection is held
• isManagedBy: is maintained and made accessible by the related party
• isOutputOf: is a product of the related activity
• isOwnedBy: legally belongs to the related party
• isPartOf: is contained within the related collection
• supports: can be contributed to, accessed or used through the related service

Party Relation Type (party)

• hasAssociationWith: has an unspecified relationship with the related registry object
• hasMember: (group only) has enroled the related party in the group
• hasPart: (group only) contains the related group
• isCollectorOf: has aggregated the related collection
• isFundedBy: receives monetary or in-kind aid from the related party or program
• isFunderOf: provides monetary or in-kind aid to the related party or activity
• isManagedBy: is overseen by the related party
• isManagerOf: oversees the related party or administers the related collection
• isMemberOf: is enroled in the related group
• isOwnedBy: legally belongs to the related party
• isOwnerOf: legally possesses the related activity, collection, service or group
• isPartOf: (group only) is contained in the related group
• isParticipantIn: is enroled in the related activity

Service Relation Type (service)

• hasAssociationWith: has an unspecified relationship with the related registry object
• hasPart: contains the related service
• isManagedBy: is overseen by the related party
• isOwnedBy: legally belongs to the related party
• isPartOf: is contained in the related service
• isSupportedBy: enables contribution and access to and use of the related collection

Address Part Type (activity collection party service)

• addressLine: an address part that is a separate line of a structured address
• text: a single address part that contains the whole address in unstructured form

Name Type (activity collection service)

• primary: official name of the registry object
• abbreviated: shortened form of, or acronym for, the official name
• alternative: any other form of name used now or in the past as a substitute or alternative for the official name

Name Part Type (person)

• title: word or phrase indicative of rank, office, nobility, honour, etc., or a term of address associated with a person
• given: forenames or given or Christian names or initials
• family: last name or surname
• suffix: honours, awards, qualifications and other identifiers conferred

Identifier Type (activity collection party service)

• abn: Australian Business Number
• arc: Australian Research Council identifier
• ark: ARK Persistent Identifier Scheme
• doi: Digital Object Identifier
• handle: HANDLE System Identifier
• infouri: 'info' URI scheme
• isil: International Standard Identifier for Libraries
• local: identifer unique within a local context
• purl: Persistent Uniform Resource Locator
• uri: Uniform Resource Identifier

Electronic Address Type (activity collection party service)

• email: string used to receive messages by means of a computer network
• fax: string used to receive scanned images of documents via telephone lines
• other: other electronic address
• url: Uniform Resource Locator
• voice: string used to recieve calls by means of a telephone line or computer network
• wsdl: (service only) Web Service Definition Language

Arg Type (service)

• string: (service only) Indicates the value of an argument is a plain text string
• object: indicates the value of an argument is an object, most likely in serialized form

Arg Use (service)

• inline: (service only) indicates the argument forms part of the base URL
• keyValue: (service only) indicates the argument is passed using key=value pairings in the query component of a URL