Institutions

Instructions

The rule guides describe what is required to submit a new item, and how to correctly fill out the forms and avoid submission errors.

New institutions are added to the cmor-mip-tables.

To check if an institutions has already been added, try adding its ROR code and acronym in the [new institution] (add link here) submission form.

Acronym

This is what we shall use to identify an institution within relevant scripts. This must be unique and should not change.

Once data has been submitted using this handle, it cannot be changed, even if your institute rebrands.

Rules : Unicode, [A-z], case-sensitive. Max 25 (tbc) characters.

Full Name

This is the full name of the institution. This should match >90% with one of the approved names in ROR.

Rules : Unicode, [A-z], case-sensitive. Max 25 (tbc) characters.

ROR

Research Organisation Repository is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations. This gives us an ability to assign a unique identifier to each institution, which persists even after they have rebranded, merged, split, shut down, and re-emerged.

Rules : An alphanumeric string, 9 characters, defined by ROR.org