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It was highlighted that in NorthStar, when users registered on the system the institute was obtained in a free-form text input i.e., you could put whatever text you wanted in that field. This then required programmatic effort to sort these free-form names into the actual, distinct institute they were trying to represent.
To avoid this problem, we should present a standard list of institute names, probably via a searchable, dropdown select input field, such that a user may choose the correct institute from that list. The actual data for this standard list should come from elsewhere e.g., a database maintained by IVOA potentially. In that way, if a user belongs to an institute that is not on the list, it is the responsibility of the IVOA (or whoever) to update their database.
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It was highlighted that in NorthStar, when users registered on the system the institute was obtained in a free-form text input i.e., you could put whatever text you wanted in that field. This then required programmatic effort to sort these free-form names into the actual, distinct institute they were trying to represent.
To avoid this problem, we should present a standard list of institute names, probably via a searchable, dropdown select input field, such that a user may choose the correct institute from that list. The actual data for this standard list should come from elsewhere e.g., a database maintained by IVOA potentially. In that way, if a user belongs to an institute that is not on the list, it is the responsibility of the IVOA (or whoever) to update their database.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: