Naming Authorities
SPASE maintains a list of naming authorities who use the "spase" scheme in resource IDs. A SPASE Resource ID is a URI and has the general form of
spase://authority/pathTo ensure global uniqueness of SPASE Resource IDs a naming authority must resource a unique name with the SPASE group. To become a naming authority and register your naming authority name with SPASE contact Todd King (tking@igpp.ucla.edu)
Current list of naming authorities
SMWG Registry
The SPASE Metadata Working Group (SMWG) administrators the metadata registry containing descriptions common entities. This includes descriptions of observatories, instruments, persons, registries and services. These descriptions are typically referenced by descriptions of digital resources such as numerical data, display data and catalogs. The SPASE descriptions are maintained in the metadata repository managed as a Github project at: https://github.com/hpde/spase-SMWG
SMWG Registry https://hpde.io/SMWG
HPDE Registry
SPASE hosts a registry service to provided access to descriptions of the resources in the Heliophysics Data Environment (HPDE). The SPASE descriptions included in the HPDE registry are from all the naming authority repositories maintain on Github at https://github.com/hpde
HPDE Registry http://hpde.io/