Intern:Institution

In the Institution table institutes are defined with address; as a relational table to the staff table, both together are forming the address database for any persons related to data in Pangaea. Institution is relation to the source field in data sets. Institution is als relational to the publisher field in the journal table, thus includes all publishers of scientific journals. Official publishers are written in capital letters.

To define a new entry click on institution, click on new and fill out the fields as described below. (First check, that the institute is not already defined). If all field are filled click on .


 * Name: of the institute; the institutes name should be accompanied by the town; for institutes at a university, the name field should contain the name of the institute first, followed by the name of the university; e.g. Institute for Geosciences, University of Bremen.
 * Abbreviation: of the institute
 * Street: part of address
 * Town: dito
 * Country: is relational to a predefined table containing all countries of the world
 * Contact: add email of institute or a contact person; name appears in the the archive table as the responsible person for a sample archive (i.a.)
 * Phone: phone number in the international format, e.g. +49 471 4831 0
 * Fax: same format
 * URL: web address of the institutes home page. If the institution is linked to data sets via the source field, this link will be shown behind the institutions name.
 * Type: choose from
 * Publisher
 * Governmental facility
 * Research facility
 * University
 * Keywords: relational to the thesaurus