Text+ Registry as hub and catalogue

Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 1 NFDI DIREKTORAT Collecting and Connecting Das NFDI-KonsortiumText+ wird gefördertdurchdie Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 460033370 Tobias Gradl Media Informatics Group, University of Bamberg Daniela Schulz Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel | University of Cologne Supported by: Leon Fruth, Nils Geißler, Fabian Gentzsch, Kilian Hensen The Text+ Registry as hub and catalogue in NFDI and beyond NFDI Talk, November 3 2025 Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 2 https://text-plus.org ▪Central catalog for resource descriptions ▪Aggregates data from existing sources ▪Allows the manual addition and curation of descriptions ▪Bridges data to other initiatives, projects and knowledge graphs Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 3 ️Status quo: A Fragmented Landscape Finding scientific resources and making research data available across projects and institutions Context ▪Heterogeneous parameters in development ▪Various disciplinary traditions ▪Differing financial resources ▪Varied technical expertise Findability Issues ▪Catalogue and research information systems not interconnected ▪Different focuses ▪Lack of interoperability ▪Manual consultation of multiple systems necessary Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 4 A (particularly) heterogeneous field ▪Diverse material foundations ▪Different output forms require different methods of description ▪Varying research questions, objectives, target group(s), scopes, etc. ▪Subject-specific standards and practices Editions vary greatly in terms of their type, media forms, editorial scope, source material / editorial objects (edenda), disciplinary conventions and traditions... Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 5 ️An Example Imagine you want to know everything about a digital edition. You consider the project website as well as the most relevant catalogues and Research Information Systems. Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe SDE catalogue by Patrick Sahle Catalogue of Scholarly Digital Editions (since 1990s) AGATE Research Information System of German Academies‘ Union Projects funded in Academies‘ Programme since 1979 Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 6 ️An Example Imagine you want to know everything about a digital edition. You consider the project website as well as the most relevant catalogues and Research Information Systems. ➢each gives you different details: one states contributors, another the technical detail, another scholarly reviews of editions. https://digitale-edition.de/e679 https://dig-ed-cat.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/entry-089.html https://agate.academy/researchprojects/details.html?[...] Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 7 ️ From to ➢The Text+ Registry as a comprehensive meta-catalogue – not only for resources from different data domains – that acts as a bridge and is interconnectable. By bringing together information from various sources and additionally offering the option of manual curation, comprehensive and FAIR resource descriptions are created. Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 8 Registry - Der Text+ Katalog Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 9 Technical Cornerstones ▪Easily reusable software components •The registry can be used for other cataloguing scenarios ▪Not just another registry – focus on: •Reuse: Federation of existing catalogues and sources •Curation: Support enrichment by domain experts ▪Allow contextualization of resources ▪Bridging functionality at core – close the gap between: •authoritative files, •existing catalogues and •aggregating services and initiatives Resource Layering Model driven design Authority files, resource linking Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 16 Inside look: Model driven design Modelling example editions ▪Main Title: ✓Multilingual ✓Mandatory ▪Actors →Person: ✓Relation to authority data ✓Further properties via relation definition ✓free text invalid (strict: true) ▪Medium: ✓Relation to vocabulary ✓Multiple selection possible ✓Free text possible (strict: false) entity: edition primary: true compositing: true blocks: -name: basic_information properties: -field: main_title type: text mandatory: true multilang: true -field: short_title type: text multilang: true … -name: actors properties: -field: person relation: edition_person multiple: true strict: false … -name: edenda properties: -field: medium type: vocabulary vocabulary: editions_quellenmedium multiple: true strict: false mandatory: true … relation: edition_person source: edition target: person strict: true properties: -field: relation_type type: vocabulary strict: true vocabulary: marc_relator mandatory: false multiple: true query: true -field: comment type: text https://gitlab.gwdg.de/textplus/registry/registry-models Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 17 Inside look: Model driven design entity: edition primary: true compositing: true blocks: -name: basic_information properties: -field: main_title type: text mandatory: true multilang: true -field: short_title type: text multilang: true … -name: actors properties: -field: person relation: edition_person multiple: true strict: false … -name: edenda properties: -field: medium type: vocabulary vocabulary: editions_quellenmedium multiple: true strict: false mandatory: true … "item": { "properties": { "main_title": [ { "@value": "Carl Maria von Weber complete edition", "@lang": "eng"}, { "@value": "Carl Maria von Weber-Gesamtausgabe", "@lang": "deu"} ], … "person": [ { "relation_type": [ { "@reference": "led", "entryReference": true, "vocabulary": "marc_relator", } ], "person": { "@reference": "5d4c9445-7a05-418b-9bb0-35d5ecc113f7", "entryReference": true, "entity": "person", } }, "medium": [ { "@reference": "notation", "entryReference": true, "vocabulary": "editions_quellenmedium", }, { "@reference": "text", "entryReference": true, "vocabulary": "editions_quellenmedium", } { "@value": "other specific medium" } ] Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 18 Inside look: Information layering ▪Multiple source levels are retained ▪Preset (customisable) hierarchies ▪Transparent provenance tracking: all original metadata remains accessible ▪Curation by experts: manual enrichment without compromising source integrity ➢consolidated, dense resource descriptions Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 19 Inside look: Information layering Gradl, T., Kudella, C., Lordick, H. et al. (2024). Towards a Registry for Digital Resources – The Text+ Registry for Editions. Datenbank Spektrum 24, 151–160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13222-024-00479-0 Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 20 Inside look: Information layering (ex.) Main Title from AGATE hides information available from SDE https://registry.text-plus.org/admin/entity/b6dbeacf-9f04-4fa9-8797-a02d65126510/ IDs filled from AGATE Publication year from SDE Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 22 Inside look: Search API & UI ▪Provides API and UI to search and explore data ▪The API is highly configurable, allowing multiple search profiles •Configurable features (query types, aggregations, ...) •Adapted to data models ▪Interoperability layer (e. g. DataCite) for comprehensive search and external reuse Continuing with UI, all shown features are available accessing the API as well Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 23 Inside look: Search UI https://registry.text-plus.org/default/search?query=Letters https://registry.text-plus.org/edition/search?query=Letters All data domains are searched Overarching facets are available All “edition” type facets are available Only “editions” are searched Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 24 Inside look: Search UI Pathways towards iterative search and browsing: ▪Resource recommendations based on embeddings ▪Visualization of resources in context (related resources, persons, institutions etc.) ➢More functionality is WIP https://registry.text-plus.org/doc/edition/52f2c438-bf3c-40d7-924e-acd884fec042 Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 25 Inside look: Connectivity in action https://research-software.cceh.uni-koeln.de/software/ediarum https://uri.gbv.de/terminology/bk/15.00 https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html https://registry.text-plus.org/doc/edition/52f2c438-bf3c-40d7-924e-acd884fec042 Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 26 Inside look: Connectivity in action https://registry.text-plus.org/doc/edition/52f2c438-bf3c-40d7-924e-acd884fec042 Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 33 How to Engage Infrastructure Provider / Developers ▪API integration: Connect your services to Registry endpoints ▪Technical collaboration: Share integration patterns and challenges ▪Standards development: Help evolve interoperability frameworks Researchers (Projects) ▪Try the Registry: https://registry.text-plus.org ▪Submit your resources for inclusion ▪Submit corrections, enhance entries ▪Participate in Edit-a-thons and community curation activities Consortia ▪Explore integration possibilities with your domain-specific resources ▪Share lessons learned from your own registry/catalogue experiences ▪Consider adoption of Text+ Registry patterns for your use cases Collecting and Connecting – The Registry as Hub and Catalogue in NFDI and beyond | NFDI Talk, 3 November 2025 34 Text+ Registry: Documentation: API Endpoints: Contact: GitLab: This presentation was created in the context of the work of the association German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) e.V. NFDI is financed by the Federal Republic of Germany and the 16 federal states, and the consortium Text+ is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - project number 460033370. The authors would like to thank for the funding and support. Furthermore, thanks also include all institutions and actors who are committed to the association and its goals. Unless stated otherwise, icons/images created via ChatGPT and Claude.ai. https://registry.text-plus.org https://registry.text-plus.org/docs/docs/intro https://registry.text-plus.org/api/ https://text-plus.org/helpdesk https://gitlab.gwdg.de/textplus/registry/registry-issues