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The Registry's functionality is accessible to clients using an as the Vocabulary Registry API. The Portal is such a client: communication between Portal and Registry is done exclusively using the Registry 's API.
The Registry API is accessible for you to use in your own applications. You can use the API to automate anything you would otherwise do in the Portal, and more besides.
This group of documentation pages explains how to access and use the Registry API. To get up to speed, we suggest that you read the pages in sequence, starting with Getting started with the Vocabulary Registry API. Each page has "page turner" links at the top and bottom to guide you through the pages in the following order: Page Tree