Aristotle Metadata Registry


The Aristotle Metadata Registry is an open-source Metadata Registry framework based on the ISO/IEC 11179 standard for Metadata Registries. It is influenced by the AIHW Meteor Metadata Registry and the . 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. In 2016, the founders of the Aristotle Metadata Registry were hired by Data61 to continue development of the platform.
In June 2018, the CSIRO and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare entered an agreement to replace the current METeOR metadata registry with a system based on the open-source Aristotle Metadata Registry

Aristotle Cloud Services Australia

Commercial support for the Aristotle Metadata Registry is provided by , 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 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.

Current implementations

Information Technology Association that "helps applications ensure interoperability by using standard metadata to configure the database or issue APIs."
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. Current additional metadata types provided by the community include: