While SCORM advances the state of the art in designing and creating interoperable and reusable learning objects, it does not address finding and reusing objects after they have been created. The Content Object Repository Discovery and Registration/Resolution Architecture (CORDRA) defines an architecture to enable the discovery, location, and reuse of learning content.

Launched in December 2005, the ADL Registry is the first publicly available CORDRA implementation. It serves the DoD learning community. The ADL Registry provides a mechanism to search for learning objects within DoD and enables their discovery and reuse by the DoD learning community as well as other communities concerned with learning technology.