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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 and operate registration services +
-  * Ensure persistent access to the metadata record of the registered IGSN +
-  * Ensure uniqueness of the allocated IGSN +
-  * Provide [[igsn:system_architecture|interfaces for metadata harvesting]] +
-  * Apply for top-level [[igsn:namespaces|namespaces]] from IGSN and assign sub-namespaces to its clients +
-  * Ensure the persistence of the sample catalogue((This includes a contingency plan for the case of the Allocating Agent going out of business)) +
-  * Follow best practices for IGSN allocation, syntax and metadata +
-  * Participate in the [[igsn:statutes#membership|IGSN General Assembly]] +
-  * Make best effort at avoiding co-reference of IGSNs  +
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-A failure to comply with the roles and responsibilities might result in a [[igsn:statutes#termination_of_membership|termination of the membership]]. +
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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+
igsn/allocating_agents.1434047082.txt.gz · Last modified: 2015/06/11 18:24 by jklump

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