The ADL Registry provides the means for DoD Components to comply with DoD Instruction (DODI) 1322.26, Development, Management, and Delivery of Distributed Learning.

The ADL registry is the first publicly available CORDRA registry. CORDRA, Content Object Repository Discovery and Registration Architecture, is a framework for building a family of services to support the discovery, sharing, and ultimately, reusing of digital objects.

Registering a digital object in the ADL Registry makes it intentionally visible and searchable. As a result, DoD envisions the following benefits of using the ADL Registry:

• Higher-quality search results over other more general web search strategies that index content
• Reduced time to locate and access appropriate content
• Reduced development effort for content developers
• Reuse of digital objects for different contexts or audiences
• Opportunity to increase quality of digital objects over time
• Scalable architecture that supports multiple locally-managed repositories
• Minimal impact on digital object repository policies and procedures
• Potential to federate with other registries over time