Staff

The Staff table includes all scientists (authors, principle investigators, expedition chief scientists) associated with the data or metadata published in PANGAEA.

STAFF entries

• Last name: mandatory
• First name: whenever available
• Phone: in the international format +49 471 4831 1220
• e-mail: in lower case letters
• ORCID: if given, personal ORCID number is linked to the metaheader of a data set.
• Institute: whenever available
• URL of a personal home page: if given, URL number of personal home page is linked to the metaheader of a data set.
• Keywords: in some cases required, e.g. to set up a list of project members

Persons defined in the staff list can have relations to the

• Campaign to define a chief scientist
• PI related to data series
• Authors of references or data sets
• Sample table

See also

• Data model
• ORCID

External links

A "global" personal identifier (PID, PND) is under discussion:

• ORCID
• 2009 Nature Editorial, Credit where credit is due, Nature, 462(7275), 825, doi:10.1038/462825a
• CrossRef Contributor ID
• http://www.viaf.org (Virtual International Authority File of OCLC)
• Personennamendatei
  • * http://d-nb.info/gnd/113757859 (example from DNB)