FAIRsharing record for: OrgReg Identifier

This FAIRsharing record describes: OrgReg, short for 'Organizational Register', is a central infrastructure within the Research Infrastructure for Science and Innovation Studies (RISIS). Its primary role is to establish a comprehensive and distinctive list of organizations involved in the research and higher education system, including higher education institutions, public research organizations, research hospitals, public administration entities, and private non-profit organizations. By assigning a unique identifier to each organization based on its organizational identity, the register enables temporal tracking and consistent identification, promoting interoperability with other datasets within RISIS and links with external data sources on the Internet. Additionally, OrgReg integrates indicators of research output through its connection with the KNOWMAK database, providing a regional perspective through EUROSTAT's NUTS classification. These identifiers are meant to uniquely identify organizations included in the register across time. This also implies that, when an organization ceases to exist, the corresponding code is not reassigned. ID will have the following format: ISO-Country code + 4 digits numeric (e.g. FR0001). A specific code INT is included to track supranational organizations, including international organizations based on treaties, CERN (PRO) or the UN system agencies, as well as those organizations which are directly part of the European Union structure, like the Joint Research Center or the European Research Council.