Functional category: registry

Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR) is an initiative (developed by Harvard University Library, with Mellon Foundation funding) to provide a distributed and replicated registry of format information populated and vetted by experts and enthusiasts world-wide. In 2009 the GDFR initiative joined forces with the UK National Archives' PRONOM registry initiative under a new name: the Unified Digital Formats Registry (UDFR).

Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) is a freely available catalogue of electronic resources and research collections. Managed by Mimas and based at University of Manchester, IESR is a machine-readable registry providing quality-assured, constantly updated descriptions of resources (and methods of accessing them).

JULIET is a registry (hosted and managed by SHERPA Services, based at University of Nottingham) providing summaries of funding agencies' grant conditions on self-archiving of research publications and data. This JULIET registry emerged from a multi-university SHERPA partnership formed for the SHERPA project (2002-2006), including a broad range of research-led universities actively interested in institutional repositories.

Open Access Repository Registry (OARR) is a JISC scoping project (managed by UKOLN) to identify the requirements for a unified registry of open access repositories. Objectives are: to review existing OARR services (OpenDOAR, ROAR and RepUK) and identify the lessons in order to inform requirements; to elicit requirements from key stakeholders; to create a specification for an open access repository registry. The output of OARR includes a specification to tender for a possible service in this area.

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a system developed and managed by the international consortium (ORCID, Inc.) dedicated to resolving the name ambiguity problem, based on collaboration amongst publishers, universities, funding bodies and other stakeholders in scholarly communications. ORCID aims to solve this name ambiguity problem by creating a registry of persistent unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID, other ID schemes, and research objects such as publications, grants, and patents.

PRONOM is the online registry (managed by UK National Archives) of technical information about public file formats, software products, and other technical components required to support long-term access to electronic records and other digital objects of cultural, historical, or business value.

Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP) is a searchable international registry (managed by University of Southampton) charting the growth of open access mandates adopted by universities, research institutions, and research funders that require their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access repository.

Romeo Eprints is a registry (managed by University of Southampton) specifying which journals have and have not already given their green light to author self-archiving. Romeo Eprints is based on data currently maintained by the SHERPA project.