Institutions and schools - collection profile and information on data management
Data Maintenance
Collection Profile:
This databases indexes important institutions in the field of education and their postal and electronic addresses, except for schools with a website of their own as these are subject to special databases.
There is no legal claim to an entry in the institions database.
The editors maintain their right to delete entries or to transfer them to another database.
We moreover process entries if necessary, in order to adapt them to the requirements of our information system.
We do not accept entries that fulfil one or more of the following criteria:
(as of September 2008,so please do not refer to older entries. The editors will decide in cases of doubts or exceptions.)
- Imprint, Provider:
Indicationn of Provider(individual person or institution) of a website are lacking or or only an anonymous e-mail is given (e.g. info@xyz.de). There is no guarantee of immediate contact. - Free access, accessibility:
The website is not usable/accessible by means of simple software (e.g. Flash animations cannot be deactivated). - No relevance for education:
The institution does not have an educational focus. - Sparse content:
While the offering is educationally relevant, the site is still under construction and it offers little information only. - Advertisement:
The entry serves advertising purposes only,without any relevence to education. - Commercial services:
The website represents a sales portal, or a catalogue of products. Providers of educational products (e.g. publishing houses, software providers) are accepted as long as their websites offer comprehensive information, reading samples, test versions or similar demonstrations of their produce. - Individual products:
Individual products from a catalogue are not accepted. - Individual locations:
As a rule, if an institution possesses several locations or branches, we accept one entry for its main office/branch only. - Offerings violating democratic, legal principles:
We do not accept entries that contain clear indications of extremist views, racism, violence, pornography, discrimination, violation of personal rights, fundamentalism, cults, etc. ^ - Further education/university courses
We do not accept individual courses because specific course guides for students and databases exist here. Exceptions may apply to offerings from the area of pedagogy, as long as these are not findable via a further education database or the provider is indexed in our institutions database. The editors can decide upon making exceptions here, provided that the services are relevant for the respective area of education.
Data Maintenance Notice:
Prior to entering your institution, please check whether the institution details already exist in our database.
The editors will process your entry, and decide upon its entry into our system, as soon as possible. Owing to the great demand for the institutions dataabase, however, this may take up to four weeks.
Please check if existing records are still relevant. You can alter existing data records yourself: You will find a link at the bottom of the display of details, "Eintrag ändern" that will aloow you to access the data set form.
Data sets can only be deleted by an editor. Please send respective e-mails to: mckenney@dipf.de