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This report is aimed to present the metadata information infrastructure project funded by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication, Japan. This project is planned to build a metadata schema registry as an infrastructure to help sharing of metadata schemas on the Internet and promote reuse of metadata schemas and metadata interoperability. The registry is designed based on the Singapore Framework. Partners of this project include several major memory organizations, research institutions, and private sectors in Japan.  This project has collected several metadata schemas from the partners and converted them into the formal scheme of the project defined based on RDF. This report first presents the background and goal of the project, and then presents the requirements and design of the registry system named Meta-Bridge.