Global Research Identifier Database

Global Research Identifier Database
Type database
Language
 English
Established 2015
Founders
 Digital Science
Status  active
Website grid.ac


Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) is an openly accessible database of educational and research organizations worldwide, created and maintained by Digital Science & Research Solutions Ltd., part of the technology company Digital Science.[1][2]

Each organization is assigned a unique GRID ID and there is a corresponding web address and page for each ID in the database. The dataset contains the institution's type, geo-coordinates, official website, and Wikipedia page. Name variations of institutions are included, as well.[3]

The first public release of GRID occurred on 22 September 2015, and it contained entires for 47,648 institutes. The 30th public release of GRID was on 27 August 2018, and the database contained 89,506 entries.[4] It is available in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) specification as linked data, and can therefore be linked to other data.[5]

In December 2016, Digital Science released GRID under a Creative Commons (CC) CC0 license, without restriction under copyright or database law.[6][7]

The database is available for download as a ZIP archive, which includes the entire database in JSON and CSV file formats.[4]

Example

The GRID ID for the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute is grid.8653.8

References

  1. ↑ Wheeler, Laura (12 October 2015). "Digital Science Launches GRID, a New, Global, Open Database Offering Unique Information on Research Organisations". Digital Science. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "GRID ID". wikidata.org. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "DISAMBIGUATE – Resolve unstructured text affiliations to GRID ids". GRID. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  4. 1 2 "DOWNLOAD – Documentation – All releases". GRID. 27 August 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  5. ↑ Szomszor, Martin (15 August 2016). "Digital Science's GRID Now Available As Linked Open Data". Digital Science. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  6. ↑ Scardilli, Brandi (6 December 2016). "Digital Science Gives GRID a CC0 License". Information Today. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "Digital Science Releases Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) Under CC0 License". Digital Science. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
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