An “Application Programming Interface” (API) is offered on the platform where this project is hosted. Moreover, there is a brief description on how to install the software, including additional information on the JSON Schema that the software was modelled after.
Majority of the funding for this project is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
The Data Type Registry addresses the issues concerning data management operability and the characteristics of a dataset that enable sharing among data creators.
The Data Type Registry began as a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation starting in 2012, and the National Science Foundation supported the project starting in 2013. Currently, there are no updates or improvements that have been announced.
This tool was created by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, and tt was created in order to address the issues regarding information management system interoperability, essentially, the ability to parse, understand, and reuse data provided by data creators.
The Data Type Registry is a project that aims to solve the issues that exists around information management system operability, and focusing specifically on enabling data creators to parse, understand, share, and reuse data created by others. The project states that “the goal of the Data Type Registry effort is to allow data producers to record the implicit details of their data in the form of Data Types and to associate those Types, each unique identified, with different instances of datasets. Data consumers can then resolve the Type identifiers to Type records for gaining knowledge of the implicit assumptions in order to understand and process the data without additional support from data producers.” The project not only focuses on file types, but also on the type of data represented in a dataset and the meanings and connotations behind each dataset value.