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 Intern: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


 * Type: choose from
 * University
 * Research facility
 * Governmental facility
 * Publisher
 * Research company
 * Funder


 * 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.


 * Crossref funder ID, mandatory for funders, enter in form "doi:10.13039/xxxxxxxx". Without Crossref funder ID it is not possible to attach institution to award as funder. If the ROR ID above has a reference to the funder record, it is added automatically. Don't add a funder ID to departments!
 * ROR (Research Organization Registry): add URI in the form "https://ror.org/xxxxxxxxxx". For departments add the ROR id of parent organization

Assigning Identifiers

 * Search ROR: Use Button Get PIDs or https://ror.org
 * Search Funder: Use Button Get PIDs or https://ror.org
 * Always verify results! (https://ror.org)
 * Department:
 * assign ROR of (parent) Institution
 * do not assign Crossref Funder ID (only for real institutions)