Answer "what data is in country X" according to executive decision
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Reporter: omeyn
Assignee: omeyn
Type: Improvement
Summary: Answer "what data is in country X" according to executive decision
Priority: Critical
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Closed
Created: 2013-08-16 15:34:51.93
Updated: 2013-12-17 15:17:14.735
Resolved: 2013-12-17 13:53:11.564
Description: How we calculate "data from a country (Oliver, please can you lead this as it is rooted in processing?)
This has been flip flopping around a bit, but has been decided as:
If the owning organization country is known, use this, otherwise attribute it to the endorser of the organization. Also, consider why we would not know the country of an organization - perhaps includes a data management task.]]>
Author: omeyn@gbif.org
Created: 2013-08-16 15:41:28.755
Updated: 2013-08-16 15:41:28.755
From Andrea:
for international organizations, we had been refraining from assigning a country purely on the basis of head quarters (EEA, OBIS, Bioversity International etc). If that is desired, they can be added of course. Currently there are 21 such agents without a country in the old registry (nerf). select id,name,iso_country_code from agent where type = 14010 and iso_country_code is null and deleted is null;
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2013-08-16 16:04:36.753
Updated: 2013-08-16 16:05:09.9
the current registry2 on staging has 670 organizations with a country and only 34 without. We should consider making country a required field.
If for mentioned headquarters it does not make much sense (isnt it part of the general address?) it also would not make more sense to use the endorsing nodes country, would it?
Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Comment: [~omeyn@gbif.org] we need to make sure the registry methods returning the list of datasets and publishers for a country use the same logic, so we need to coordinate on the exact, final decision. Please keep me and this jira up to date
Created: 2013-08-16 16:20:39.164
Updated: 2013-08-16 16:20:39.164
Author: omeyn@gbif.org
Comment: I've spoken with Tim and Andrea and the decision is to not fill in country for organizations where it's currently absent (e.g. by adding the headquarters country). That means we have (currently) 34 organizations where we will attribute the data to the endorsing node. It also implies that country can not be made a required field on organization.
Created: 2013-08-20 09:47:20.698
Updated: 2013-08-20 09:47:20.698