registriessuch
Registriessuch is a concept in information management describing a cross-registry search approach that aims to locate records of interest by querying multiple data registries simultaneously or in a coordinated federated fashion. It focuses on interoperability, scalable discovery, and provenance-aware result fusion, enabling users to uncover records that may be distributed across government, health, academic, or corporate registries. The term is a portmanteau of registry and such (with influences from the German Such meaning "to search"), and appears in discussions about multi-registry data discovery in recent data-management literature.
Definition and scope: Registriessuch encompasses federated search, schema mapping, and entity resolution to bridge heterogeneous registries.
Applications and benefits: The approach is used in public-sector data portals, health information exchanges, cultural heritage
Challenges and considerations: Technical hurdles include divergent data models, incomplete or inconsistent metadata, and varying identifier
See also: federated search, record linkage, data governance, metadata standardization.