diff --git a/sources/Registry-Federation-Tool/README.md b/sources/Registry-Federation-Tool/README.md index a545f102..05544b32 100644 --- a/sources/Registry-Federation-Tool/README.md +++ b/sources/Registry-Federation-Tool/README.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ The **Register Federation Tool**, also known as "Register of Registers (RoR)", i ## Background: The European Commission Joint Research Center developed the Register Federation Tool as a testbed funded by the ISA Action 1.17 "ARE3NA" to test the feasibility of creating and declaring code list extensions that accommodate specific semantic needs while guaranteeing interoperability of the systems that use them. -Since then, the European Commission has operated the [INSPIRE register federation](https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/register-federation/). This tool is a distributed federation of registers related to the INSPIRE Directive operated by the European Commission. Where Member States need to extend INSPIRE agreed on code lists, they must make available the extended values in local registers. Such local registers can also support other use cases, e.g. the management of organisations in a country that must implement INSPIRE or thematic vocabularies, such as those provided by EU institutions and bodies. +Since then, the European Commission operated the INSPIRE register federation, until October 2024. This tool was a distributed federation of registers related to the INSPIRE Directive operated by the European Commission. Where Member States needed to extend INSPIRE agreed on code lists, they could make the extended values available in local registers. > **Register Federation Tool** can be used in any domain that uses semantic assets, so it is freely distributed as an open source for anyone who needs to cover this gap.