[RAS] Fwd: [RePEc-run] Have the latest redif.spec

['Christian Zimmermann']

The change to ReDIF was made back in November and announced.

The new workplace cluster type is easily identified with the 
workplace-institution field. The old one used workplace-organization.

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Sune Karlsson wrote:

> I am not entierly happy about the way this is done. It would have been good 
> with some advance notice before an incompatible change is made to ReDIF.
>
> While the changes to RAS has been discussed (I believe only on RAS-RUN) I can 
> find no discussion of the changes to ReDIF.
>
> To make things worse we now have two different file formats in play at the 
> same time. When will the conversion to the new format be complete?
>
> I don't like the arrows in Workplace-Name.
>
> /Sune
>
> Ivan Kurmanov skrev 2012-02-28 17:13:
>> 
>>
>>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>  From: *Ivan Kurmanov* <duraley at gmail.com <mailto:duraley at gmail.com>>
>>  Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:06 PM
>>  Subject: Re: [RePEc-run] Have the latest redif.spec
>>  To: the gory details of RePEc <repec-run at lists.openlib.org
>>  <mailto:repec-run at lists.openlib.org>>
>> 
>>
>>  Sorry, the higher-share affiliation would come first, actually. So, it
>>  may rather be like this after the upgrade:
>>
>>  Workplace-Name: Belarusian State University
>>  → Faculty of Economics
>>  Workplace-Institution: RePEc:edi:febsuby
>>  Workplace-Share: 70
>>  Workplace-Name: Independent Institute of Socio-Economic & Political
>>  Studies (IISEPS)
>>  Workplace-Institution: RePEc:edi:iisepby
>>  Workplace-Share: 30
>>
>>  -i
>>
>>  On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Ivan Kurmanov <duraley at gmail.com
>>  <mailto:duraley at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>      I have been reviewing past mail from myself, trying to find if i
>>      have warned you, guys, about a change in person templates that is
>>      going to happen. And I can't find it, so maybe it is just in my head.
>>
>>      The affiliation data in the template may look like this:
>>
>>      Workplace-Organization: RePEc:edi:febsuby
>>      Workplace-Organization: RePEc:edi:iisepby
>>
>>      But after the forthcomming upgrade, it would soon start looking as:
>>
>>      Workplace-Name: Belarusian State University
>>      → Faculty of Economics
>>      Workplace-Institution: RePEc:edi:febsuby
>>      Workplace-Share: 30
>>      Workplace-Name: Independent Institute of Socio-Economic & Political
>>      Studies (IISEPS)
>>      Workplace-Institution: RePEc:edi:iisepby
>>      Workplace-Share: 70
>>
>>      This is a change that may require adaptation on your side.
>>
>>      Every ReDIF template generated after the upgrade will be formatted
>>      in the new way. Please let us know if this is a serious issue and if
>>      we should postpone the upgrade.
>>
>>      -ivan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>
>>      On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Christian Zimmermann
>>      <zimmermann at stlouisfed.org <mailto:zimmermann at stlouisfed.org>> wrote:
>>
>>          The RePEc Author Service will soon start disseminating person
>>          templates with new fields (Deceased, Workplace-Share). Make sure
>>          you have the redif.spec file dated 2011-11-10, distributed in
>>          ReDIF-perl version 2.66, in place, or the new templates will be
>>          rejected.
>> 
>>
>>          --
>>          Christian Zimmermann                          FIGUGEGL!
>>          Economic Research
>>          Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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>>          St. Louis MO 63166-0442 USA
>>          http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/
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Christian Zimmermann                          FIGUGEGL!
Economic Research
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P.O. Box 442
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