Review of "Corporate Author" Registry

[PatricaCabrera]

Background

The metadata field Corporate Author (dc.contributor.corpauthor) identifies organizations responsible for developing or publishing a Best Practice in the IOC-OBPS repository.

Currently, IOC-OBPS and EC-OBPSS use different approaches.

Current situation

IOC-OBPS

• Free-text organization names.

EC-OBPSS

• Organizations selected from the SeaDataNet EDMO registry.

Discussion

Using controlled organization identifiers would improve consistency, searching, and interoperability.

Potential options include:

1. Adopt the SeaDataNet EDMO registry.
2. Adopt the Research Organization Registry (ROR).

Questions for the community

• Is ROR the preferred registry, as the primary authority
• Are there use cases where EDMO is more appropriate?

References

• ROR: https://ror.org/
• EDMO: https://www.seadatanet.org/Metadata/EDMO-Organisations