GRID release 2018-02-08

A database of over 85,000 research institutes with persistent identifiers.Institutes added from various sources including the US, China, France, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and other countries.Metadata:* US dependencies (American Samoa, Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands) are treated as states of the US.* Chinese dependency Hong Kong is treated as a state/region of China.* Changed country name from "Palestinian Territories" to UN and ISO standard "State of Palestine".* Created parent-child relationships for around 200 multinational companies.QA* Review of all EU bodies and agencies.* Review of parent-child relationships of Sea Grant and Space Grant organisations.* Adaption of country name changes: Czech Republic is now Czechia.* Review of potential duplicates.Note: the geonames information is from geonames.org and licensed as CC-BY 3.0.

一个包含超过85,000个研究机构的数据库，配备持久性标识符。该数据库中的机构来自包括美国、中国、法国、德国、荷兰、澳大利亚及其他国家在内的多个来源。元数据包括：* 将美国依赖地区（美属萨摩亚、密克罗尼西亚、关岛、马绍尔群岛、北马里亚纳群岛、波多黎各、美国小离岛、美属维尔京群岛）视为美国的州。* 将中国依赖地区香港视为中国的州/地区。* 将国家名称从“巴勒斯坦领土”更改为联合国及ISO标准的“巴勒斯坦国”。* 为约200家跨国公司创建了父子关系。* 对所有欧盟机构及代理机构进行了审查。* 对Sea Grant和Space Grant组织的父子关系进行了审查。* 适应国家名称变更：捷克共和国现更名为捷克。* 对潜在的重叠项进行了审查。备注：地理名称信息来自geonames.org，并许可为CC-BY 3.0。