Introduction

This document describes the procedure by which metadata items, or other registry items, required in various application areas can be assigned an internationally unique identifier and registered in a metadata registry maintained by one or more Registration Authorities. This document supports multiple schemes for ensuring the uniqueness of the identification.

The metamodel of the common facilities for a metadata registry is defined in ISO/IEC 11179‑3. Other parts in the ISO/IEC 11179 series and the ISO/IEC 19763 series provide additional metamodels to extend the common facilities to permit various types of metadata to be registered. The metamodel for the common facilities defined in ISO/IEC 11179‑3 allows a registry item to simply be identified or to be both identified and registered. A registered item may either be an administered item, meaning it has its own registration state, or it may be an attached item, which means it is attached to an administered item and shares the latter's registration state. The registered items are included in registries maintained by one or more Registration Authorities, to which the registered items logically and functionally belong. An organization wishing to become a registration authority may do so in accordance with the procedure prescribed in Annex A.

The registration process described in this document may be applied to any type of registry item, such as those specified by:

— ISO/IEC 11179‑31 ^[ ⁸ ^]: data elements, data element concepts, conceptual domains, value meanings, value domains and classification schemes;
— ISO/IEC 11179‑32 ^[ ⁹ ^]: concept systems, relations and links;
— ISO/IEC 11179‑33 ^[ ¹⁰ ^]: data sets and associated attributes;
— ISO/IEC 11179‑34 ^[ ¹⁶ ^]: computable data;
— ISO/IEC 11179‑35 ^[ ¹¹ ^]: models;
— ISO/IEC 19763 ^[ ¹⁴ ^]: ontologies, process models, service models, role and goal models, information models, document models, mappings between models, and form designs;

and/or custom types not specified by these standards. Each registered item is represented within a metadata registry by a registration record that documents the common administration and identification, naming and definition details together with their metadata item-specific details.

Within this document, the use of “Registry” denotes an implementation of a registry that is based upon the common facilities defined in ISO/IEC 11179‑3 and that is managed by one or more Registration Authorities.

BS ISO/IEC 11179-6:2023

Information technology. Metadata registries (MDR) - Registration

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Published:

31 Mar 2023