Roles

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Presented here for convenience are definitions of roles exercised by participants in the PTAGIS project. For programmatic use, these and many additional roles are defined in the ptagis_domain and domain_enumeration tables of the ptagis3 database. Specifically, ptagis_domain defines enum_person_role as a list of the "roles that a person can exercise with respect to the PTAGIS Project or with respect to a participating project". Within the domain_enumeration table, over a dozen enum_person_role entries exist.

As of this writing, only TDS (Tag Distribution System) makes use of these entries - for example, to identify a user as a 'Tag Requester' or a 'Tag Receiver', or as a 'TDS Administrator' (see below). However, plans call for widespread use of this table in the near future; for example, to:

• establish role-based user access to system functionalities
• assign custodial responsibility for project-specific data sets, such as collections of tagging files
• identify technical personnel responsible for maintaining the PIT-tag interrogation equipment at a given geographic location

As may be seen in the PPO (Person-Project-Organization) schema, any number of roles may be associated with an individual, through entries in the project_activity_role table. Please refer to this document for more information.

PTAGIS Roles

PTAGIS Administrator 

Responsible for responding to user requests, granting access, etc.

Steering Committee 

Members of PIT Tag Steering Committee

Project Sponsor 

Archaic

Tag Coordinator 

See PIT Tag Spec Document: COORDINATOR ID

Interrogation (a.k.a. Obs Site) Data Coordinator 

A PTAGIS User who has data ownership responsibility for the data from an Interrogation Site.

Interrogation Site Support 

A PTAGIS User who is responsible for supporting interrogation data hardware at Interrogation Sites.

Field O&M 

A PTAGIS Project O&M Staff Memeber or designee responsible for related O&M.

Registered User 

Any PTAGIS user with a PTAGIS User ID and Password.

TDS Administrator 

Individual authorized to use basic, approval, and inventory capabilities of the TDS web application.

Tag Recipient 

Individual that receives tags shipped from PTAGIS TDS system.

TDS POC 

Tag Distribution System Point of Contact