General information about the JPSearch RA
A number of International Standards developed by ISO (International Organization for Standardization) technical committees require, with a view to their updating or implementation, a competent body which has the requisite infrastructure for ensuring the effective use of these international agreements. These bodies are designated by ISO to serve as maintenance agencies or registration authorities. The JPSearch RA is the competent body designated by ISO to serve as a registration authority for the international standard ISO/IEC 24800-2:2011 (JPSearch Part 2). JPSearch aims at providing interoperability to digital image search and retrieval systems. According to the JPSearch specification, JPSearch compliant systems can manage multiple proprietary or community-specific metadata schemas. The multiplicity of schemas is solved by allowing the publication of machine-readable translations between metadata terms belonging to proprietary metadata schemas and metadata terms in a reference metadata schema provided by JPSearch. In order to rationalize the usage of schemas and translation rules across different JPSearch systems a global authority for schemas and their translation rules has been established where all JPSearch compliant retrieval applications can obtain the information needed.
