Enrollment/Registration is the process of adding information about a person to the Registry. (Broadly, the processes of updating and deleting information are also in scope.)
In most cases, this the registration (aka enrollment) process is initiated when a System of Record (SOR) learns about a new person and passes that information on to the Registry. (Some organizations flip this process, where a person cannot be known to the SOR until the Registry tells the SOR about the person.) There are multiple types of SORs, which may vary according to the organization, and may include:
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Typically, an SOR is only authoritative for role-level data about a specific population (eg: students or employees). _\[OSIdM4HEteam:Not trying to start a terminology battle here... role just means, eg, attributes associated with being a student.\]_ The Registry is authoritative for person-level data. The line between these two may vary according to a given organization's needs or policies, but typically person-level data includes attributes such as name (which may be selected from an SOR's name for an individual) or netid, while role-level data includes attributes such as title or physical address. |
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