[Tf-aai] Email template for getting attributes released

[Martin Matthiesen]

Hi,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dieter Van Uytvanck" <dieter at clarin.eu>
> To: "Martin" <martin.matthiesen at csc.fi>, "Jozef Misutka" <misutka at ufal.mff.cuni.cz>
> Cc: "tf-aai" <tf-aai at lists.clarin.eu>, spf at clarin.eu
> Sent: Tuesday, 17 May, 2016 18:08:17
> Subject: Re: [Tf-aai] Email template for getting attributes released

> On 17/05/16 14:34, Martin Matthiesen wrote:
>> Kielipankki uses affiliation in 2 SPs: korp.csc.fi <http://korp.csc.fi>
>> to allow ACA for affiliation=faculty and in lbr.csc.fi
>> <http://lbr.csc.fi> as extra information to manually process applications.
> 
> Thanks for the information. Not sure if we should stimulate the use of
> affiliation actively (by mentioning it in the suggested attributes), as
> there is quite a bit of difference in implementation - eg in SURFconext
> the value "faculty" is never used:
> 
> https://wiki.surfnet.nl/display/surfconextdev/Attributes+in+SURFconext#AttributesinSURFconext-Affiliation
> 
> Of course it might work for eg HAKA, but the point of the suggested
> attribute list is to have something that can be generalized for all SPs.
> Is anyone else using it?

Yes "affiliation" is a mess. I just checked, the Norwegians set staff for non-"faculty" employees. And I think somewhere else, "staff" is also non-academic staff. That is why we are working on providing the possibility of "applying" for ACA-status via lbr.csc.fi, so a legitimate user can use all ACA resrources seamlessly. Since "faculty", if set, definitely means academic staff, it seems safe to test for it.  

Martin

> 
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> Dieter Van Uytvanck
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