Last Name: Field
Definition
The surname or family name of the member of staff.
Reason Required
For matching records for statistical purposes, such as to monitor progression and retention. For identification, linking of data and ease of reference in case of enquiries
Schema Definitions
- XML Entity Name
- LastName
- Field Length
- 100
- Data type
- xs:string
- Minimum occurrences
- 1
- Maximum occurrences
- 1
- Part of
- StaffData
Collection Requirements
- Collected for all Staff Members
Valid Entries
Please ensure spelling and case sensitivity is correct e.g. John Smith not JOHN SMITH. Many names include characters with accents and other diacritics that are not supported by the standard ASCII character set. The general policy is to support all Latin-based characters but not non-Latin characters.
Basic Latin: page with code points U+0000 to U+00FF• Latin Extended A: page with code points U+0100 to U+01FF
Latin Extended B: page with code points U+0200 to U+02FF
Latin Extended C: page with code points U+2C60 to U+2D5F
Latin Extended D: page with code points U+A720 to U+A81F
Latin Extended Additions: page with code points U+1E00 to U+1EFF
The Unicode charts that list each of the characters in this range can be found on the Unicode web site.
The character sets listed are those defined in the ISB standard for names. Files must be encoded with UTF-8 and schema validation will be in place to ensure this. Institutions must specify the encoding used in their XML files in the first line of the file (i.e. ) and to ensure that their files are actually saved with that encoding. If XML files are edited with some text editors and the encoding is not specified or does not match the actual file encoding, there may be problems when submitting these files for validation.
The following characters are not valid for this field:
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Carriage returns
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Line feeds
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Double quotes
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Pipes
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Numerical characters
Pattern
Notes
This field should not include maiden names for example Mary Jones - nee Smith / Mary Jones - was Smith.