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A Technical Note is underway within the OASIS/ebXML Registry Technical Committee for the registration of “fine-grained” XML artifacts

There has been a growing need for information exchange partners and Communities of Interest to maintain XML artifacts at a “fine-grained” level within metadata registries, using an open standard

The ebXML Registry standard is a metadata registry standard that supports the registration, maintenance and discovery of both XML- and non-XML artifacts

A few basic facts about the ebXML Registry architecture will help us better understand why this Technical Note is needed

A few basic facts about the ebXML Registry architecture will help us better understand why this Technical Note is needed (cont’d)

The following class diagram represents the ebXML Registry Information Model (ebRIM)

Although the generic capabilities of ebXML Registry have always supported fine grained XML artifact registration, at present no document describes how this should be done as a best practice

The Fine-Grained XML Artifacts Technical Note will describe how such artifacts can be managed as RegistryObjects within ebRIM in a standard manner, using the existing registry capabilities

The Technical Note will lay a foundation for increased flexibility in management and evolution of XML-based vocabularies using ebXML Registry

Some preliminary thinking has already been done regarding the scope of the Technical Note and the proposed approach

Some preliminary thinking has already been done regarding the scope of the Technical Note and the proposed approach (cont’d)

Some preliminary thinking has already been done regarding the scope of the Technical Note and the proposed approach (cont’d)

A multi-faceted approach will be used to determine the metadata that should be represented for each fine-grained XML artifact in the registry

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