OpenOrgs: the OpenAIRE service for bridging registries of research organisations

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https://www.openaire.eu/openorgs-the-openaire-service-for-bridging-registries-of-research-organisations

Organisations appear all over the Research & Innovation ecosystem in different shapes and formats: the same organization may appear with different names (e.g., full legal name, short or alternative names, acronym) and different metadata fields in different data sources. Persistent identifiers may be of no help when different data sources identify organizations according to different PID schemas (ROR, ISNI, EC PIC numbers, etc.). Disambiguating them when trying to build a linked open scholarly communicution system is not a trivial problem.

OpenAIRE developed OpenOrgs to address this ambiguity which greatly affects the information aggregated by OpenAIRE from different research organization registries (e.g. Research Organisation Registry - ROR, the Europen Commission and other funder databases, ) into building the OpenAIRE Research Graph. OpenOrgs was presented in the demo session at the Open Science Fair in September 2021 with two aims. First, to highlight the importance of this disambiguation task not only for OpenAIRE services but for building a robust Open Science ecosystem. And second, to practically show OpenOrgs main functionalities and how users can interact with them.

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