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-====== Allocating Agents ====== 
  
-An [[igsn:statutes&#definitions|Allocating Agent]] is an institution which allocates IGSN names on behalf of the IGSN registration agency of IGSN. An Allocating Agent may delegate technical functions and services to one or more data centres. +:!: The documentation of the IGSN has moved to [[http://igsn.github.io/]] :!:
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-===== Roles and Responsibilites ===== +
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-  * Register IGSN +
-  * Ensure persistent access +
-  * ensure uniqueness +
-  * provide harvesting interfaces +
-  * Apply for namespaces from IGSN and assign sub-namespaces to its clients +
-  * Persistence of the catalogue (includes contingency plan) +
-  * operate registration services +
-  * follow best practices (syntax, metadata) +
-  * Participate in General Assembly +
-  * Best effort at avoiding co-reference  +
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-===== Operating Allocating Agents ===== +
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-  * System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR) [[http://www.geosamples.org]] +
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-===== Allocating Agents in preparation ===== +
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-  * CSIRO Australian Resources Research Centre [[http://www.csiro.au/en/Organisation-Structure/Divisions/Earth-Science--Resource-Engineering/arrc.aspx]] +
-  * MARUM Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, Univ. Bremen [[http://www.marum.de]] +
-  * German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Potsdam [[http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/portal/gfz/Services/Forschungsdaten]] +
-  * Geoscience Australia +
-  * Curtin University, De Laeter Centre for Geoschemistry+
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