CORDRA Content Object Repository Discovery and Registration/Resolution Architecture

CORDRA is an effort to define a framework for the federation of digital collections. The framework aka “CORDRA specification” is intended to be an open, standards-based model for designing and implementing information systems including registries and repositories for the purposes of discovery, sharing and reuse of information. The CORDRA specification will describe how owners or managers of widely distributed information expressed in digital form may register the existence of that information and so enable others to find and use that information.

As part of this effort, Corporation for National Research Initiatives and Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative collaborated to design and implement a metadata registry, known as ADL Registry, to showcase and provide a reference implementation of the CORDRA specification. We are presently working on formalizing the CORDRA specification and publishing it on this site.