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Global Registries Initiative
The Global Registries Initiative (GRI) is a collaboration between the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) and counterparts in the UK (IESR) and USA (OCKHAM Project). The initiative aims to make it easier to discover research data and publications stored in disciplinary and institutional repositories. It will do so by centrally registering national registries of research data, and the service points for interacting with those registries. Clients can then be configured automatically to search across all registered service points: the registries are formed into an ad hoc federation, which can be used by aggregators, mash-ups and portals, to improve access to scientific resources wherever they are stored.
GRI’s goals are consistent with those of ANDS, which aims to improve access to Australian research by gathering descriptions of research data collections from projects and institutions throughout the country, and making them available for search through a central portal. GRI extends the scope of discovery, by federating registries that do what ANDS is doing in Australia—just as a repository federation makes the content of all its repositories discoverable, without the content of the repositories necessarily being stored in the one central spot.
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