Party

All about parties

Structure and meaning of 'party'  |  Best practice for creating a party record  |  Example RIF-CS  |  Contributing party records to Trove

Meaning and purpose

A party record describes a person, group or role related to an activity, to the creation, update, or maintenance of a collection, or to the provision of a service.

Parties are included in the ANDS Collections Registry because they add to the discoverability of collections and add valuable contextual information, including assisting with determination of value for a collection. Generally, parties, whether persons or groups, will be linked to collections, activities and services through use of the Related Object element.

The kind of party (party type) is described by choosing from the following:

• group: one or more persons acting as a family, group, association, partnership, corporation, institution or agency.
• person: a human being; or an identity (or role) assumed by one or more human beings.
• administrativePosition: a kind of party where the position name and contact information are present but the identity of the party filling the role is not specified.

Research domain examples

"Professor John Smith" is a person and "The Australian National University" is a group. "Data custodian", "Data Officer" or "Data Manager" are examples of administrative positions (or roles).

Additional information

The date on which metadata describing a party was last changed in the source system can be recorded. See Date modified.

Party Infrastructure project

The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Party Infrastructure Project is a collaboration between the National Library of Australia (NLA) and ANDS. The project aims to improve the discovery of research outputs and data through persistently identifying Australian researchers and research organisations. For more information, see the ANDS Guide ARDC Party Infrastructure and Introducing the  ARDC Party Infrastructure: A guide for ANDS Partners.

For guidance on the use of identifiers for researchers (NLA party identifier, local identifiers, and publisher or international identifiers such as ThomsonReuters ResearcherID, Elsevier's Scopus AuthorID, VIAF and ORCID, see detailed information in the Identifier element section.

RIF-CS examples (v1.2.0)

Person and group records

<party type="person">
   <!--remainder of record-->
</party>

<party type="group">
  <!--remainder of record-->
</party>

Example of a full party record for a person (fictional record)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<registryObjects xmlns="http://ands.org.au/standards/rif-cs/registryObjects" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://ands.org.au/standards/rif-cs/registryObjects http://services.ands.org.au/documentation/rifcs/schema/registryObjects.xsd">
<registryObject group="My University of Technology">
    <key>myuni.edu.au/mary-smith</key>
    <originatingSource type="authoritative">http://www.myuni.edu.au</originatingSource>
    <party type="person" dateModified="2010-07-02T14:33:40Z">
        <identifier type="AU-ANL:PEAU">http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1472115</identifier>
        <identifier type="uri">http://myuni.edu.au/mary-smith</identifier>
        <name type="primary">
            <namePart type="title">Professor</namePart>
            <namePart type="given">Mary</namePart>
            <namePart type="family">Smith</namePart>
        </name>
        <relatedObject>
            <key>10378.3/8085/1018.2598</key>
            <relation type="hasAssociationWith">
                <description>Primary Contact</description>
            </relation>
        </relatedObject>
        <relatedObject>
            <key>10378.3/8085/1018.255</key>
            <relation type="isParticipantIn"/>
        </relatedObject>
        <relatedInfo type="website">
            <identifier type="url">http://eprints.myuni.edu.au/view/person/Smith_Mary.html</identifier>
            <notes>Access to Professor Mary Smith's publications.</notes>
        </relatedInfo>
    </party>
</registryObject>
</registryObjects>

Example of a party record with multiple identifiers (fictional record)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<registryObjects xmlns="http://ands.org.au/standards/rif-cs/registryObjects" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://ands.org.au/standards/rif-cs/registryObjects http://services.ands.org.au/documentation/rifcs/schema/registryObjects.xsd">  
    <registryObject group="Research Institute">
        <key>researchinstitute.org.au/f8c4a4749</key>
        <originatingSource>http://resint.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/en/oaipmh</originatingSource>
       
        <party type="person">
           
            <identifier type="AU-ANL:PEAU">http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-471322</identifier>
            <!--NLA identifier included to allow linking with other records about the same person-->
           
            <identifier type="thomsonreuters">A-1009-2008</identifier>
            <!--Thomson Reuters Researcher ID included to allow later matching with publications and to support disambiguation in Trove.
                This could also be provided in the form
                <identifier type="uri">http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-1009-2008</identifier>
            Only use this form for stable URIs, not for queries. If only the ID is available use a type that reflects the authority for the identifier-->
           
            <identifier type="scopus">71022101507</identifier>
            <!--Elsevier Scopus Author ID included to allow later matching with publications and to support disambiguation in Trove-->
           
            <identifier type="viaf">29541064</identifier>
            <!--VIAF ID included to allow later matching with publications and to support disambiguation in Trove-->
           
            <identifier type="orcid">AAA-1034-2010</identifier>
            <!--ORCID ID included to allow later matching with publications and to support disambiguation in Trove-->
           
            <name>
                <namePart type="title">Professor</namePart>
                <namePart type="given">Mark</namePart>
                <namePart type="family">Reindeer</namePart>
            </name>
            <!--separate name parts to allow matching with Trove-->
           
            <location>
                <address>
                      <electronic type="url">
                      <value>http://institute.edu.au/staffcontactinfo/f8c4a4749</value>
                      </electronic>
                </address>
            </location>
            <!--...-->                       
            <relatedInfo type="website">
                <identifier type="url">http://institute.edu.au/research/staff/Reindeer.html</identifier>
                <notes>Staff home page with biographical information, recent publications, research interests and current projects.</notes>
            </relatedInfo>
        </party>
    </registryObject>
</registryObjects>


Example of a party record with information for matching with Trove (fictional record)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<registryObjects xmlns="http://ands.org.au/standards/rif-cs/registryObjects" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://ands.org.au/standards/rif-cs/registryObjects http://services.ands.org.au/documentation/rifcs/schema/registryObjects.xsd">
    <registryObject group="Example University">
        <key>example.edu.au/PTY/6</key>
        <originatingSource type="authoritative">http://www.example.edu.au</originatingSource>
        <party type="person">
           
            <!--NLA party identifier not present as record not yet matched with Trove-->
            
            <name type="primary">   
                <namePart type="family">Smith</namePart>
                <namePart type="given">Joseph</namePart>
                <namePart type="suffix">1963-</namePart>
            </name>
            <!--separate name parts to allow matching with Trove-->
            
            <!--...-->
            
            <subject type="anzsrc-for">2103</subject>
            <!--ANZSRC Field of Research supports disambiguation in Trove-->
            
            <description type="brief">Professor Smith has research interests in social and emotional intelligence, cognitive factors contributing to depression, and mental health help seeking. He is affiliated with the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Society of Australian Social Psychologists.   
            </description>
            <!--Biographical information supports disambiguation in Trove-->
           
            <relatedInfo type="publication">
                 <identifier type="url">http://eprints.qut.edu.au/7451/</identifier>
                 <title>Series of Detailed Turbulence Measurements in a Small Subtropical Estuarine System</title>
                 <notes>Contains additional information about this dataset including calibration and data accuracy.</notes>
            </relatedInfo>
            <!--Publication information supports disambiguation in Trove-->
           
        </party>
    </registryObject>
</registryObjects>

Date	Change history
April 2010	Consultation draft
26 October 2010	Examples and information about ARDC Party Infrastructure Project added; recommendations for multiple parties associated with an activity changed to reflect evolving party and activity infrastructure
8 March 2011	Added link to ARDC Party Infrastructure Guide and expanded XML examples
22 July 2011	Expanded RIF-CS example by adding relatedInfo element and additional identifier types, added link to detailed guidance on party identifiers
14 October 2011	Created separate new Party Best Practice page
18 Nov 2011	Added new type of administrativePosition
4 May 2012	Redirected link to new Trove training page

 

 

 

 

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