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After a discussion in the JRC registry team, we concluded that there may be an additional case of reusing register items, where items are re-used 1:1. This is e.g. the case of "externally governed" code lists in INSPIRE, where INSPIRE simply adopts the values already specificed and managed by some other organisation (e.g. EIONET/EEA). We therefore propose to update the introduction to section 4.3 as follows:

Items from one register can be reused in another register in order to support specific thematic, application or national requirements. We use the term profile[1] here for a register that contains additional items, a subset of items or a combination of both or a register that reuses all items from the original register 1:1 (Figure 2).

Figure 2 – Different types of register profiles. The original register is shown in light blue, the register profile in dark blue.

 

[1] According to [ISO 19106], a profile is a set of one or more base standards or subsets of base standards (…) that are necessary for accomplishing a particular function”, but can also “include extensions within the context permitted in the base standard”.

@Andreas: Of course you can also add registers to the federation that have no relationships to other registers. One of the features of the RoR is to simply search for available registers. In fact, most of the central INSPIRE registers are of that type.