Open issues (1)
Organisation of registries:
Registries are part of infrastructure
Distributed vs. centralised approaches:
Hedstrom (2003) suggests that format and
metadata registries could/should be 'shared
services'
Experimental distributed registries are based
on Resource Description Framework (RDF)
CORES Registry
Encourage re-use of metadata (the
'application profile' concept)
Are other technologies more suitable?
Who should be responsible?