Registry Interchange Format - Collections and Services (RIF-CS)

The Registry Interchange Format - Collections and Services (RIF-CS) Schema was developed as a data interchange format for supporting the submission of metadata to a collections service registry.

• Schema Guidelines
  
  
• RIF-CS Schema updates: Information about changes to the schema or its use.
  
  
• RIF-CS Schema:
  • Registry Objects Schema
  • Activity Schema
  • Collection Schema
  • Party Schema
  • Service Schema
  • Type Definitions
  • Controlled Vocabularies
  • Schema Documentation
  • Sample XML Markup
    
    
• RIF-CS Java API: Provides assistance to Java developers in the assembly of RIF-CS documents by providing classes for most RIF-CS elements, enabling processing of elements as objects, avoiding repetitive XML API calls
  • The API jar
  • The API javadocs
  • Example code (download)


• Implementing a RIF-CS OAI-PMH Data Provider

• Advice for content providers:
  ANDS Partners providing content to ARDC should also see the ANDS Partners information.
  • Content Providers Guide
  • Minimum Metadata Content Requirements