Note: This is a requirement that is part of Issue #44 and is created as a separate issue for ease of processing.

Note: Is that issue already done with ELMO version 1.5???

The German SfH would like to use EMREX for national and international access to digitized upper secondary school diplomas.

Trying to use the current ELMO version for German upper secondary school diplomas (“HZB – Hochschulzugangsberechtigung”) the problem showed up, that the following data necessary for a German “HZB” do not exist in this version of ELMO schema:

Person-specific characteristics (to be added to the “Learner” of ELMO-structure): Gender, placeOfBirth, birthName, address

Remarks to the additional person-specific characteristic:
SfH needs the diploma learner’s

• gender, placeOfBirth, birthName and address to search and erase applicants who got more than one account in the SfH application registry (as long as there is no German eID all over)
• gender to address the applicant in digital and analogous letters
• address not to misaddress the applicant in mostly analogous letters.

With birthName the family name is meant you got as baby. After marriage family name often is changed, so you need the first family name (“birthName”) as personal identifier. Changes in first name are also possible (if someone changes his or her gender) but not so often, so that we can ignore it for the moment.

For gender we can use ISO/IEC 5218 for the moment as used in EWP as well. In Germany we had some month ago a change in law that you are allowed to get a gender “Diverse” (not male and not female) – but that are exception, so we can ignore it for the moment (or could “9 – not applicable” used? How are other countries dealing with that?).