Re: Recorders name when sending information to the NBN
This concept has recently turned into an issue which it seems has the potential to get out of hand.
When I submitted a county Diptera dataset to the Gateway I "knew" all the recorders involved.
Now someone else has the responsibility to update the datasets there are some recorders they don't "know" (Recorders associated with this dataset who we are not familiar with - according to a recent email I have received) and this new person "would like to contact to check that we have their permission to add the records to the NBN"
The consequence of this is either:
1. Anyone responsible for uploading a dataset and then passing this responsiblity to someone else is obliged to engage in interminable correspondence about who the recorders were
2. Every time an uploader changes, the poor recorder is sought out and his permission is sought again (assume Alan Stubbs did some sort of survey in every county at some point, then he would be sought out for permission every time the personnel in an LRC changed - quite a frequent occurrence these days)
So the questions are:
1. Are we correct in the assumption that recorder's permissions must be sought out before submitting records to the NBN Gateway?
2. Is there some unburdensome mechanism by which this permission need not be sought time after time