Identifiers¶

An identifier is a string or symbol, assigned to an organization by a dubbing process

The Organization Ontology uses The Identifier Ontology to represent identifiers for organizations.

The Identifier Ontology is a small set of terms in Information Artifact Ontology (IAO) to represent identifiers, and in particular, persistent identifiers, often called PIDs. Persistent identifiers are maintained by one or more maintainers interested in the persistence of the identifier and its assignment to an entity over time.

The table below lists identifiers available in the Organization Ontology 1

See Table 4.

Table 4 Identifiers¶
Term ID - Label	Definition
IAO_0022003 - crossref funder identifier	An identifier assigned by CrossRef to an organization which has funded a project resulting in a published work
IAO_0022006 - dbpedia identifier	A URL used by DBpedia to identify an entity
IAO_0022010 - global research organization identifier	An identifier assigned and managed by Digital Science for the purpose of denoting research organizations
IAO_0022014 - international standard name identifier	An identifier for persons and organizations which may be assigned by matching algorithms based on records provided by publishers
IAO_0022022 - research organization registry identifier	An identifier assigned by ROR to research organizations in the world
IAO_0022027 - wikidata q number	QID (or Q number) is the unique identifier of a data item on Wikidata, comprising the letter “Q” followed by one or more digits.
IAO_0022057 - ringgold identifier	The Ringgold Identifier is a unique numerical identifier applied to organizations in the scholarly supply chain

Usage¶

To assert that an organization has an identifier, we assert the existence of the identifier of a particular type, its value/representation, and its association to the organization. We say:

x denoted_by y
y a research_orgnization_registry_identifier
y has_representation "ror-value"

Footnotes

1: If a needed organization identifier is not in the table, please open a Github issue with the name and source of the identifier for inclusion in subsequent releases of the Organization Ontology.