Publishers and Contacts

Overview

To be able to choose a publisher for a catalog or a dataset, you need to add publishers in EntryScape. Publishers and Contacts are managed as separate entities in EntryScape. You can add several publishers, which is useful if your organization is publishing datasets for another organization.

Publishers

To create a publisher, go to your catalog, then choose Publishers in the left menu and click on "Create".

There you enter the Name of the publishing organization. It is also recommended to choose which type of organization it is and preferably enter a homepage and an email adress (optional) .

You can always fill in more details later. Just click on the "Edit" button on the overview page for the publisher.

There you can also remove the publisher by clicking on the "Remove" button.

Contacts

A Contact is specified as a function address or an individual contact to a dataset. It is a responsible function for the management of the dataset and has the responsibility to keep the metadata updated and accurate. Use the search field to find the contact you want to enter in your dataset or create a new contact under Contacts in the left menu, by clicking on "Create".

First select if the contact is an individual or an organzation. Next enter Name and Email. If you want you can turn on the recommended fields and enter Telephone number och Address as well.

If you go to the overview for the contact you can edit descriptions or remove the contact, using the buttons on the right side.