Intern:Staff

The Staff table includes scientists related to metadata and data as author, principle investigator or chief scientist of an expedition.

Information about STAFF

 * Last name: mandatory
 * First name: when ever available
 * Phone: in the international format +49 471 4831 1220
 * e-mail: in lower case letters (emails are not case sensitive)
 * ORCID: personal ORCID number; in the metaheader of a data set a PI is linked to this number. If not given it is linked to his URL.
 * Institute
 * URL: of personal home page; in the metaheader of a data set, a PI is linked to this URL. If not given, it is linked to his email.
 * Keywords: if 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

The keyword field can be used to e.g. set up mailing lists or dynamic lists of project members on web pages. Define a new keyword in the thesaurus, e.g. ‚acronym of a project‘_staff. Link the keyword to all project members in the staff list. Define a retrieval: keyword is equal to ...project_staff. Follow the procedure as described for the DDI.

In example a staff Expedition 302 Scientists was defined with a URL, containing a dynamic query on all staff, related to a certain keyword with email, phone and institute. This functionality may be used, when ever a dynamic group of persons has to be included in the PI field.

To add a static list of investigators, the URL field in a staff definition may just point to a flat text file e.g..

To use a predefined staff list as an email distribution list, export a result list configured to just the email column, open the file, select all and copy and paste the list to the email address window of your mailer.

A "global" personal identifier (PID, PND) is under discussion:
 * ORCID
 * 2009 Nature Editorial, Credit where credit is due, Nature, 462(7275), 825,
 * CrossRef Contributor ID
 * http://www.viaf.org (Virtual International Authority File of OCLC)
 * Personennamendatei
 * * http://d-nb.info/gnd/113757859 (example from DNB)