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On the basis of discussion in OASIS Registry and Repository Technical Committee meetings, the following desiderata have been identified for a registry interface. In some cases these desiderata imply value-added information beyond that provided by the SO and the RA.
There shall be taxonomic classification by subject matter of the entities exposed in the interface. An example of how a classification scheme may be encoded in XML conformant to ISO/IEC 11179 is classif.txt, using class.dtd. Several taxonomic axes may be useful, including genre and format.
Entities shall be classified by language.
Entities shall be classified by availability of related material, such as documentation, examples, and style sheets. This information is available in the Docbook submission examples.
The interface shall allow the user to set preferences to filter the information shown to him according to these classifications (and other information), for example, a user shall be able to obtain a view of DTDs for real estate in English, whether or not payment is required for them.
It has been suggested that the registry interface shall use UN English.
TO DO: obtain information on UN English (same as Oxford Unabridged Dictionary?).
There shall be an index by identifier.
There shall be an index by intellectual property owner
There shall be an index by author or corporate author, if not the same as intellectual property owner
It shall be possible to obtain information on the past life cycle of a registered entity (when it was received, approved, retired, and so on) and planned future changes.
It may be useful to supply a notification service for subscribers wishing to know when a change is made, either to a specific entity or to the set of entities matching the user's preferences and some particular query (for example, to inform the user when there is any change, including an addition to the registry, to the set of DTDs for real estate in English, whether or not payment is required for them).
The Technical Committee has expressed great enthusiasm for the provision of reviews, feedback, user comments, and reports of error conditions for entities exposed through the interface. for this information.
It would be desireable, though not always necessarily possible, to be able to provide information about dependencies among registered entities. This information is available in the Docbook submission examples.
It is desired to enable free-text searching of registered entities by field, such as the generic identifier within an element type declaration, or the content of an XML comment.
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