Naming Authorities

The naming authority of a resource is generally the entity, agency, or organization that commissioned the creation of the resource. Very often, though not always, the entity that sponsored the creation of the resource, i.e., its funding agency, serves also as the naming authority of the resource. A naming authority is therefore the entity to which a resource described by a SPASE document (having a SPASE Resource ID and a DOI reference) is attributed. For this reason, naming authorities can be used conveniently to organize SPASE metadata.

In support of resource sharing, SPASE resource descriptions should be made publicly available and shared from a registry through either a repository or a service. The preferred method is a publicly accessible git repository. Convenient git hosting services include GitHub and (for self-hosting) GitLab. Each naming authority should correspond to a "Repository" of resources. The SPASE ID for this Repository must be "spase://{NA}/Repository/metadata" where {NA} is replaced with the naming authority name. For example, the NASA repository will have a Repository resource description with the SPASE Resource ID of:

spase://NASA/Repository/metadata

Rules for Assigning a Naming Authority

The naming authority of a resource should be assigned at the highest, most appropriate level of entity to which the commissioning or origination of the resource can be attributed. For example, it could be at the national agency level like it is for the "NASA" naming authority. Or in the case of a conglomerate entity, it could be at the highest project level like it is for "IUGONET". The SPASE Group has devised an order of priority when assigning a naming authority, as follows:

1. Major oversight/funding agency (CNES, ESA, JAXA, NASA, NOAA, NSF,…etc.) for resources from missions, observatories, instruments or investigations that fall well within an agency management;
2. Overall long-term project name (e.g., ISWI, GONG, IUGONET, Nançay,…etc.) when an infrastructure-like project receives multiple sponsorships or has multiple partners that are separately funded.
3. Instrument PI institution if none of the above applies.

List of naming authorities

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Authority	Description
ASWS	Australian Space Weather Services (ASWS) Assigns resource IDs for data registered in the Australian Space Weather Services (ASWS). Website: http://www.sws.bom.gov.au/World_Data_Centre Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/ASWS
CCMC	Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) Assigns resource IDs for data available from the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC). Website: http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/CCMC
CNES	Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales Assigns resource IDs for data available from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES). Website: https://cnes.fr/en Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/CNES
CSA	Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Assigns resource IDs for data registered in the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Website: https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/ Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/CSA
CSSDP	Canadian Space Science Data Portal (CSSDP) Assigns resource IDs for data registered in the Canadian Space Science Data Portal (CSSDP). Website: http://www.cssdp.ca/ Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/CSSDP
DLR	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) Assigns resource IDs for data registered in the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR). Website: https://www.dlr.de/ Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/DLR
ESA	European Space Agency (ESA) Assigns resource IDs for data available from the European Space Agency (ESA) Website: http://www.esa.int/ESA Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/ESA
FMI	Finnish Meteorlogical Institute (FMI) Assigns resource IDs for data available from the Finnish Meteorlogical Institute (FMI) Space and Earth Observation Centre Website: https://space.fmi.fi/ Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/FMI
INAF	Istituto Nazionale Di Astrofisica (National Institue for Astrophysics) Assigns resource IDs for data available from the Istituto Nazionale Di Astrofisica (INAF). Website: http://www.inaf.it/ Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/INAF
INSU	Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU) Assigns resource IDs for data available from the Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU). Website: https://www.insu.cnrs.fr/ Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/INSU
ISWI	International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) Assigns resource IDs for data available from the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI). Website: http://www.iswi-secretariat.org/ Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/ISWI
IUGONET	Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation NETwork (IUGONET) Assigns resource IDs for data available from the Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation NETwork (IUGONET). Website: http://www.iugonet.org/ Metadata Repository: http://search.iugonet.org/list.jsp
KASI	Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) Assigns resource IDs for data available from the Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI). Website: https://www.kasi.re.kr/eng/index Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/KASI
GBO	Ground Based Observatories (GBO) Assigns resource IDs for data available from the ground based observatories (GBO). Website: http://vspo.gsfc.nasa.gov Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/GBO
JAXA	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Assigns resource IDs for data available from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Website: http://global.jaxa.jp/ Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/JAXA
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Assigns resource IDs for data generated through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Website: https://nasa.gov/ Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/NASA
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Assigns resource IDs for data registered in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data systems. Website: http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/ Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/NOAA
NSF	National Science Foundation (NSF) Assigns resource IDs for data available from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Website: https://www.nsf.gov/ Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/NSF
SMWG	SPASE Metadata Working Group (SMWG) The community location for entities such as persons, observatories, instruments, repositories, registries and services. Website: http://www.spase-group.org/registry Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/SMWG
UOULU	University of Oulu (UOULU) Assigns resource IDs for data available from the University of Oulu (UOULU) Website: http://www.spase-group.org/registry Metadata Repository: https://github.com/hpde/UOULU

The following naming authorities are deprecated and should not be used when creating new resource desciprtions:

Authority	Description
VEPO	Virtual Energetic Particle Observatory (VEPO). http://vepo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
ViRBO	Virtual Radiation Belt Observatory (ViRBO). http://vmo.nasa.gov
VITMO	Virtual Ionosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere Observatory (VITMO). http://vitmo.jhuapl.edu/
VMO	Virtual Magnetosphere Observatory (VMO). http://vmo.nasa.gov
VSO	Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO). http://sdac.virtualsolar.org/
VSPO	Virtual Solar Physics (VSPO). https://vspo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
VWO	Virtual Wave Observatory (VWO). http://vwo.nasa.gov