This repository contains the source data for the Australian Government Linked Data Working Group (AGLDWG)'s Persistent Identifier (PID) and Organisations catalogues. The register maintains PIDs within the linked.data.gov.au namespace.
The AGLDWG created PIDs for three types of thing:
- Datasets
- Linked Data datasets online
- Definitional Items
- Linked Data ontologies, vocabularies, profiles, etc.
- Organisations
- for any organisation that submits PID requests to the AGLDWG
PIDs for all these items redirect to their human- and machine-readable home locations online which are provided by the PID registers, not the AGLDWG.
The AGLDWG creates PIDs according to its Guidelines. PIDs, once approved, are automatically enabled through extraction of redirect information from this catalogue and automated deployment to the PID Proxy server at linked.data.gov.au.
Please refer to the AGLDWG website for more details about who can and how to make PIDs.
The Organisations catalogue maintains information about organisations and people beyond just PID information, such organisation relations and PID management details.
Organisations can be added to the catalogue by request - directly to the AGLDWG. All organisations involved with PIDs will also be added to the catalogue.
All the content of this repository is licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license with the following copyright notice:
© Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Government Linked Data Working Group), 2025
For all matters relating to this repository and the registry that it supports, please contact:
Australian Government Linked Data Working Group
linkeddatairi@ardc.edu.au
https://www.linked.data.gov.au
Many of the operational tasks required to maintain the PID Register are coded into Docker and Python scripts that can be run via the "Task" task runner / build tool.
All the tasks available are listed in Taskfile.yml, e.g. rdf2conf, aup & adown.
They are run simply by typing task aup etc. on the (Linux-like) command line.
- Run the RDF-to-conf script
task rdf2conf- Start the test server container
task aup