When data is ingested into my node registry, is it integrated with the rest of the PDS?

[jordanpadams]

Is there a distinction between a Discipline Node’s individual registry and the PDS-wide registry. If so, which is the one into which we have ingested our data?

In other words: Have we now created our node registry? And is it integrated into the PDS-wide registry? Or are you not making that distinction anymore?

[pds-ops]

Short Answer

Once you ingest your data into "your" registry, it is fully-integrated with all PDS registries, and accessible to the world through the PDS Search API alongside all the other node data at https://pds.nasa.gov/api/search/.

Long Answer

Current Design

Each node does have their own distinct Registry Service running through AWS OpenSearch, which are then integrated using OpenSearch Cross-cluster Search (CCS) through the EN's Central Registry.

For more details on the architecture, see the Registry About page and/or the Cloud Architecture page.

Future Design

We are currently investigating a refactoring of the Registry architecture to utilize a multi-tenancy architectural approach through Amazon OpenSearch Service. This may impact some of the functions for interacting with node-specific registries, but will NOT require nodes to re-load any existing data.