Registration Process Upgrade

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The registration process currently requires admins to add countries, cities and institutions to the database manually during the approval process quite often. Furthermore, users logging in via the federated IDP system, who don't need to be approved, should get access to the registry much easier and faster. Thus, an automated procedure has to be developed, which

• can derive institution name, city and country from user input or IDP metadata
• automates geocoding of the institution
• can validate the new categories (eg. university should be identified by Geonames)
• checks for existence of item in the database
• returns id of existing category entry or
• creates entries (institute, city, country) if they don't exist
• uses the existing manual procedure as a fallback

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Statement of OEAW-tech: metadata about personal organizational affiliation, country, city, is not reliable (tag: "o"). Further research required. Availability of metadata in the DARIAH-AAI?