Aristotle Metadata Registry
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| File:Aristotle mdr v124 screenshot.png Screenshots of Aristotle Metadata Registry in desktop and mobile formats. | |
| Developer(s) | Aristotle Metadata Community |
|---|---|
| Initial release | v1.0-rc0 / 2015-05-28 [1] |
| Stable release | v3.0.16
/ 2020-01-16 [2] |
| Written in | Python, Django, Vue.js |
| Standard(s) | ISO/IEC 11179, ISO/TC 215, DCAT & DDI |
| Type | Metadata Registry |
| License | Commercial software |
| Website | www |
The Aristotle Metadata Registry is commercial Metadata Registry software based on the ISO/IEC 11179 standard for Metadata Registries. It is influenced by the AIHW METeOR Metadata Registry[3] and the Canadian Institute of Health Information Indicator Bank. Aristotle-MDR is designed to describe data holdings databases and associated structural metadata. The Aristotle Metadata Registry was publicly launched at the 2015 IASSIST Conference in Toronto.[3] In 2016, the founders of the Aristotle Metadata Registry were hired by Data61 (a division of CSIRO) to continue development of the platform.
Commercial support
Commercial support for the Aristotle Metadata Registry is provided by Aristotle Cloud Services Australia (ACSA), a Canberra-based Australian limited liability company. ACSA was founded by the core members of the Data61 Aristotle Metadata team in November 2017 to provide commercial support to government clients and provides a number security and enterprise features within the Aristotle Cloud product line. Aristotle Cloud Services Australia is a member of both the Data Documentation Initiative and member of the Canberra start-up hub Entry29. Aristotle Cloud Services Australia was one of the major sponsors of the 2019 IASSIST conference.
In 2021, Aristotle Cloud Services Australia was a national finalist in the 59th Australian Export & Investment Awards.
Current implementations
- DSS Metadata Registry - A metadata registry for the Department of Social Services (Australia) capturing data about longitudinal social security information.
- FACSIAR Metadata Registry - A metadata registry for the New South Wales Department of Family and Community Services capturing information about child welfare, homelessness and out-of-home care outcomes.
- Evolve SBR - Australian Government Standard Business Reporting Data Dictionary
- Metadata Online registry for Cloud Applications - A metadata registry operated by the Korea Information Technology Association that "helps applications ensure interoperability by using standard metadata to configure the database or issue APIs."
- OCASI Indicator Registry - Metadata registry for the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants
- Prosper Canada Financial Literacy Indicator Registry - Registry of peer-reviewed indicators tracking financial literacy outcomes for Prosper Canada
- Metadata Online registry for Cloud Applications - A metadata registry operated by the Korea Information Technology Association that "helps applications ensure interoperability by using standard metadata to configure the database or issue APIs."
- Workplace Gender Equality Indicator Registry - A metadata registry for the Workplace Gender Equality Agency recording Gender Equality indicators for Australian employers.
- World Health Organisation "100 Core Health Indicators" - A registry for standard indicators, dashboards, data quality frameworks for the World Health Organisation
Extension API
Aristotle-MDR implements the object-oriented nature of ISO/IEC 11179 that has allowed the community to build extensions to the original metadata scope of ISO/IEC 11179.[4] Current additional metadata types provided by the community include:[5]
- Health indicator and Performance Indicator types to record population-level health and equality indicators such as those collected by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the World Health Organization
- A DCAT compatible extension to support Data set specifications to record columnar datasets
- Download formats for Data Documentation Initiative and DHIS
External links
References
- ^ "GitHub - Aristotle Metadata Registry v1.0.0-rc0". GitHub.
- ^ "PyPI Aristotle Metadata Registry Entry".
- ^ a b Samuel Spencer (2015-06-03). "Aristotle Metadata Registry - A new contender for government metadata management". IASSIST. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
Based on the system architecture of METEoR, the Aristotle Metadata Registry is a rebuilt implementation that provides an free open-source, easy to install and scalable metadata registry.
- ^ "ISO/IEC 11179-3". ISO. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
It is not expected that this metamodel will completely accommodate all users. Particular sectors, such as document management, scientific data and statistical data, require metadata attributes not addressed in this standard. This standard provides Slots (see 7.2.2.4) as a mechanism to extend metadata items with custom attributes. Classes, relationships, and attributes may be added as extensions to existing packages in this conceptual data model, or complete new packages may be added.
- ^ "Aristotle Metadata Registry Extensions". GitHub. 4 May 2022.