Updated: 9 April 2000
This is the home page for the OASIS Registry and Repository Technical Committee, linking to several categories of documents listed below.
The chairman of the Registry and Repository Committee and maintainer of this page is Terry Allen (tallen@sonic.net) of Commerce One, Inc., who would be happy to receive comments on the committee's documents, including this one.
The long-term objective of the committee is to develop one or more specifications for interoperable registries and repositories for SGML- and XML-related entities, including but not limited to DTDs and schemas, which should include an interface that enables searching and browsing of the contents of a repository of those entities. The registry and repository are to be designed to interoperate and cooperate with other similar registries and repositories, but this goal is reserved for a later phase of work.
The TC's work product, including all content mentioned on this page, can be downloaded as a zip file.
The Draft Technical Specification for a Registry , the main deliverable, now contains the list of links to DTDs and entities also provided below, under "DTDs and Sample Documents".
Implementations of the OASIS technical specification, material related to them, contributed material, and other, related or similar activities are listed on our Implementations and Related Activities page.
The current tentative schedule for the work of the committee
The archive of the committee's e-mail discussion list. To subscribe, send mail to majordomo@oasis-open.org, with the body "subscribe regrep".
Functional requirements for interoperability - these requirements derive from discussion of how interoperable distributed registries and repositories should work, but are not dealt with in the Technical Specification.
Further functional requirements for the repository; this is not intended to be normative.
Listed here are sample documents, DTDs, and entities that contain lists of values for certain attributes in the DTDs. The submission samples are actually full sets of composite metadata; they are what a registry should return in response to requests for registry metadata.
The documentation for the DTDs and entities may be found in OASIS Registry and Repository DTD Documentation.
Cover letter, a nonnormative example of semantics to be used in the context of submission
Contact information for an RA, SO, and RO and Document fragment used in contact information
Registration document samples for the Docbook DTD, one for each module, one for the entire distribution and one describing related data - these represent the RA's composite metadata for these components of Docbook.
Declarations of other entity files as XML parameter entities
List of administrative status values per ISO/IEC 11179, with some additions
Declarations of OASIS-specific values in a customization layer
Sample instance showing use of DTD for NAICS taxonomy
Document fragment used in contact information for this classification scheme.
Sample instance showing use of DTD for contents of a repository sorted according to NAICS taxonomy
Sample instance of URN resolver preferences file