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Step-by-Step Instructions for Using the NSDL Registry

Step-By-Step Instruction

  • STEP 1. Go to the production Registry (or to the Sandbox if you want to try things out first)


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  • STEP 2. Click on “sign in/register” in the top right hand corner and register yourself as a user. If you just want to browse the Registry, you don't need to register, but user registration and login is essential for managing vocabularies.


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  • STEP 3. As a User, you may now register an organization or a person as a Resource Owner or maintenance agency. When you register an owner, you automatically become an administrator for that owner/maintenance agency within the Registry. Soon you will be able to add other registered users as maintainers for the vocabularies you register (for now, if you need to add another maintainer, contact the Registry Admin).

All registered vocabularies must have an owner, but registered owners may have any number of vocabularies. Not every vocabulary owned by a particular agency or individual will be managed by the same maintainers.


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Required information for owners or maintenance agencies allows essential contact to be maintained between the individual or organization and the NSDL Registry. Contact information is used to provide notifications of activity and to provide assistance in the event of problems.

  • Step 4. After you've registered an agent, you will see a list of current vocabularies, and a button on the bottom of the list that says “create.” If you click this button, you will be presented with a form to fill out for your vocabulary.
  • Step 5. Once your vocabulary is registered, you may add concepts by clicking on the concepts tab at the top, and clicking on the “create” button to invoke the concepts form. After the first concept is registered, you can use “save and add” to save the current concept and allow you to register the next in one step. We suggest that you register all your concepts FIRST, before adding any properties to the concepts (why we suggest this will become more obvious when you begin to create relationships between concepts).
  • Step 6. Once your concepts are registered, you can go through and add additional properties. When you add “broader,” “narrower,” or “related” properties to a concept, The Registry will automatically maintain these relationships in the related concepts.