Background
Activity contacts can provide the name of the individual to contact about an activity
They cannot provide the job title or the department they work in, which is arguably important for large organisations
Additionally a contact type option is not available
Problems
It’s sometimes important to know the job title or department of the responsible individual, and this may also help avoid some data protection concerns about providing individuals’ names
Proposal
Add <job-title> and <department> elements within the <person> element.
In addition:
There may be different contact requirements for an activity. For example, the address to send evaluation or feedback to, and the address to send error reports about the information in an activity record, may be different.
Additional proposal:
Create a <contact-type> field or attribute with a code-list of contact types which may include: donor-contact; project-contact; feedback-contact;
(This should be a minimal code-list, and we may wish to always require a ‘primary contact’ to be specified, either with a contact-type, or a @primary-contact=’true’ element)
Proposed by Mark Brough
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