RegistrationInformation

Overview

RegistrationInformation is an optional container within EventDetails that conveys how participants should register for an event described by a research product, including the organizations that handle the registration process. It supports event-based research distribution by providing structured contact and procedural information for events that require advance sign-up, have limited capacity, or impose access controls (sources: data-dictionary-2.5.1 p.51, user-guide-2.3.1 p.35).

Usage

Use RegistrationInformation inside EventDetails when the research product describes an event — such as a conference, webcast, roadshow, or analyst meeting — that requires attendees to register in advance or be coordinated through one or more organizing entities (sources: user-guide-2.1 p.33, data-dictionary-2.4 p.48). The element is optional, and when present it typically contains zero or more Organization child elements identifying the parties responsible for handling registration. Multiple Organization entries can be used when registration is split across channels or co-managed by several entities (e.g. a host firm plus an external event coordinator) (sources: user-guide-2.3 p.35, user-guide-2.3.1 p.35, data-dictionary-2.5.1 p.51). In the draft v3.0 model, the child organizations were proposed to be grouped under an OrganizationList aggregation rather than appearing as repeated Organization elements directly [data-dictionary-v3-draft p.79].

Rules

• MAYRegistrationInformation is optional within EventDetails and may be omitted when an event has no formal registration process.[RIXML User Guide v2.1 p.33] [RIXML Research Data Dictionary v2.4 p.48] [RIXML Research Data Dictionary v2.5.1 p.51]
• MAYWhen RegistrationInformation is included, it may contain one or more Organization child elements identifying registration-handling entities; there are no cardinality restrictions on these children.[RIXML User Guide v2.3.1 p.35] [RIXML Research Data Dictionary v2.4 p.48]
• SHOULDA v3.0 proposal recommends removing EventDetails and its sub-structure — including RegistrationInformation — from the schema on the grounds that the structure is not being used by publishers or consumed by research portals. This change had not been ratified at the time of the source meeting and event-related elements used by the RIXML Interaction Standard would need to be preserved.[RIXML All-Member Meeting June 2023 p.33]↗

Relationships

• child-ofEventDetails — RegistrationInformation appears as an optional child of EventDetails, scoping the registration information to a specific event.
• containsOrganization — Contains zero or more Organization elements describing the entities that handle event registration (e.g. host, sponsor, or third-party event coordinator).