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[Mijo Djerek <mijo AT srce.hr>]

Hello,

in Croatia we have a country wide unique student identifier so it was 
easy for us to construct ESI.

Best regards,

Mijo Derek
Head of data services and middleware department

University of Zagreb, University computing centre (Srce), www.srce.unizg.hr
mijo.djerek AT srce.hr, phone: +385 1 616 55 88 fax: +385 1 616 55 59


On 29.10.2021. 9:44, Valeriu Vraciu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Not sure if this is the right place to ask, so any pointers to other 
> sources of information are also much appreciated.
>
> Universities within our federation are catching-up with 
> projects/environments that aim to ease students' mobility in respect to 
> their identification and asked about how to deal with attributes needed 
> for this.
> Particularly, the construction of European Student Identifier (ESI) as 
> it is suggested at [1] is in debate, the second form seems to be 
> suitable (urn:schac:personalUniqueCode:int:esi:<sHO>:<code>), but we are 
> seeking for information about what other federations recommended to 
> their constituency, mainly regarding what to use for <code> part in 
> above form, or/and if there are any country-level regulations dealing 
> with this so uniqueness is somehow guaranteed if the other form 
> (urn:schac:personalUniqueCode:int:esi:<country-code>:<code>) is used.
>
>
> Thank you and best wishes,
> Valeriu.
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.geant.org/display/SM/European+Student+Identifier