Create a Research Organization profile

[GovernorUnfortunable]

Here is an option for persistent identifiers for Research Organizations: https://ror.org/; it seems to have a CC0 1.0 license. About the granularity of the institutional information, they explain: "ROR is focused on being a high-level registry of organizations so we can address the fundamental affiliation use case and provide a critical source of metadata that can interoperate with other institutional identifiers. ROR is therefore not focused on mapping departments within institutions, though some sub-units such as research institutes and laboratories are in scope. ROR’s data and infrastructure are openly available for leverage by and interoperability with local-level efforts focused on mapping individual hierarchies within organizations."

(The other option I knew about, GRID, got absorbed by Dimensions.ai; here is its last public release)

[bluerasberry]

Currently about 100,000 organizations in Wikidata are matched to ROR identifiers.

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P6782

The Wikidata property is https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6782 and described at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ROR_ID

If we wanted to either use ROR-indexed organizations as a model, or use Wikidata items with ROR identifiers as a model, then those are options fro building off a precedent.

[bluerasberry]

We also have a fellowship project for 2024 with the goal of assigning identifiers to research sites. Research sites are too low-level for ROR indexing, but something else we may want and which matters in specific contexts.

[GovernorUnfortunable]

When cataloging projects, I tend to find that research sites vary a lot in terms of scope (city, state, country, etc.). But also in how the territory is thought of beyond the traditional state-centric logic. This is critical for having a RH that adapts to other ways of thinking about space (or research work).