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eml-party
The eml-party module - People and organization information
The eml-party module describes a responsible party (person or
organization), and is typically used to name the originator of a
resource or metadata document. It contains detailed contact
information for the party, be it an individual person, an
organization, or a named position within an organization. The
eml-party module is used throughout the other EML modules where
detailed contact information is needed.
The eml-party module, like other modules, may be
"referenced" via the <references> tag. This allows
a party to be described once, and then used as a reference in
other locations within the EML document via it's ID.
all datasets
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Responsible party
The individual, organization, or role associated with a
resource.
The responsible party field contains multiple
subfields that are used to describe the person, organization, or
position within an organization that is associated in some way with a
resource. It is intended to be used to fully document contact
information for many types of associations, such as owner, manager,
steward, curator, etc.
Please see the examples for the particular
subfields.
Individual Name
The full name of the person being
described
The responsible party field contains the full
name of the person that is associated with the resource. This
field contains subfields that break the persons name down into
first and last name, and the values are entered into those
field containers. Note that this field, used in conjunction
with 'organizationName' and 'positionName' make up a single
logical originator. Because of this, an originator with only
the individualName of 'Joe Smith' is NOT the same as an
originator with the name of 'Joe Smith' and the
organizationName of 'NSF'. Also, the positionName should not be
used in conjunction with individualName unless only that
individual at that position would be considered an originator
for the data package. If a positionName is used in conjunction
with an organizationName, then that implies that any person who
currently occupies said positionName at organizationName is the
originator of the data package.
Because this is an 'elementOnly' field, please
look at the examples for the subfields 'givenName' and
'surName'.
Organization name
The full name of the organization being
described
The responsible party field contains the full
name of the organization that is associated with the resource.
This field is intended to describe which institution or overall
organization is associated with the resource being described.
Note that this field, used in conjunction with 'individualName'
and 'positionName' make up a single logical originator. Because
of this, an originator with only the individualName of 'Joe
Smith' is NOT the same as an originator with the name of 'Joe
Smith' and the organizationName of 'NSF'. Also, the
positionName should not be used in conjunction with
individualName unless only that individual at that position
would be considered an originator for the data package. If a
positionName is used in conjunction with an organizationName,
then that implies that any person who currently occupies said
positionName at organizationName is the originator of the data
package.
National Center for Ecological Analysis and
Synthesis
Position Name
The name of the title or position associated with
the resource.
This field is intended to be used instead of a
particular person or full organization name. If the associated
person that holds the role changes frequently, then Position
Name would be used for consistency. Note that this field, used
in conjunction with 'organizationName' and 'individualName'
make up a single logical originator. Because of this, an
originator with only the individualName of 'Joe Smith' is NOT
the same as an originator with the name of 'Joe Smith' and the
organizationName of 'NSF'. Also, the positionName should not be
used in conjunction with individualName unless only that
individual at that position would be considered an originator
for the data package. If a positionName is used in conjunction
with an organizationName, then that implies that any person who
currently occupies said positionName at organizationName is the
originator of the data package.
Niwot Ridge Data Manager
Contact address
The full address information for a given responsible
party entry.
The address field is a container for multiple
subfields that describe the physical or electronic address of the
responsible party for a resource.
Please see the subfield examples.
Phone
Information about the contact's
telephone
The phone field describes information about the
responsible party's telephone, be it a voice phone, fax, or
TTD/TTY type telephone. This field contains an attribute used to
identify the type.
805-555-2500
Phone type
The type of the phone to which this number
applies
This attribute gives the type of phone
to which this number applies. By default, this is assumed
to be of type "voice", but other possibilities include
"facsimile" and "tdd".
Email address
The email address of the contact.
The electronic mail address is the email address
for the party. It is intended to be an Internet SMTP email
address, which should consist of a username folowed by the @
symbol, followd by the email server domain name address. Other
address types are allowable.
my-email@mydomain.edu
Online Link
A link to associated online information, usually a
web site.
A link to associated online information, usually
a web site. When the party represents an organization, this is
the URL to a website or other online information about the
organization. If the party is an individual, it might be their
personal web site or other related online information about the
party.
http://www.yourdomain.edu/~doe
User Identifier
An identifier that links this party to a
directory of personnel
An identifier that links this party to a
directory of personnell. Although specific contact information
for a party might change, the underlying correspondence to a
real individual does not. This identifer provides a pointer
within a personnell directory that may contain further, and possibly
more current, information about the party.
uid=jtown,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
Directory
The directory system within which the
directoryId can be retrieved.
This attribute names the directory system
to which this userId applies. This will generally
be a URL that shows how to look up information, for
example an LDAP url. However, it could also be a
non-parseable description of the directory system if
that is all that is available.
ldap:///ldap.ecoinformatics.org/dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org
Person
The full name of the individual associated with the
resource.
The person field is used to enter the salutation,
first name, and last name of the individual associated with the
resource. It uses three subfields in order to help parse the person's
entire name.
Please see the examples within each
subfield.
Salutation
The salutation used to address an
individual
The salutation field is used in addressing an
individual with a particular title, such as Dr., Ms., Mrs., Mr.,
etc.
Dr.
Given name
The given name of the individual.
The given name field is used for the first name of
the individual associated with the resource.
Jane
Last name
The last name of the individual.
The surname field is used for the last name of the
individual associated with the resource.
Doe
Address
The full address of the resposible party.
The address field is provides detailed information for
communicating with a party contact via electronic mail or postal mail,
including the physical delivery location.
Please see the examples for each subfield
Delivery point
The location for postal deliveries.
The delivery point field is used for the
physical address for postal communication. This field is used to
accomodate the many different international conventions that are
the equivalent to a U.S. 'street address'.
7209 Coast Drive, Building 44
City
The name of the city for the contact.
The city field is used for the city name of the
contact associated with a particular resource.
San Francisco
Administrative area
The political area of a country.
The administrative area field is the equivalent
of a 'state' in the U.S., or Province in Canada. This field is
intended to accomodate the many types of international
administrative areas.
Colorado
Postal code
The postal code used for routing to an
address.
The postal code is equivalent to a U.S. zip
code, or the number used for routing to an international address.
The U.S. postal code should include the 5 digit code plus the 4
digit extension.
93106-2231
Country
The name of the country for the contact's
address.
The country field is used for the name of the
contact's country.
U.S.A
Responsible party
An individual, organization, or role.
The responsible party contains multiple
subfields that are used to describe a person, organization, or
position within an organization.
It is intended to be used to fully document contact
information for many types of associations, such as owner, manager,
steward, curator, etc.
Role
The classification of the associated person or
organization.
The role code field provides information on how a
person or organization is related to a resource. There may be many
people associated, including an 'originator' of a dataset, an 'author',
'editor', or 'publisher' of a literature resource, or an organization
that is a 'distributor'. the full list of choices is included in the
example.
author, contentProvider, custodianSteward, distributor,
editor, metadataProvider, originator, pointOfContact,
principalInvestigator, processor, publisher, or user.