Organization entity

[BaptisteCecconi]

In the Organization entity, there is a link to WikiData.

While I fully advocate for including external identifiers when available, WikiData is not a really stable source of information. We hit that wall in semantics, and WikiData proves to be very difficult to curate if you are not a member of the WikiData community. Hence I would recommend to at least add the possibility to include a ROR (Research Organization Registry) identifier, which is the reference for science organisation. See here: https://ror.org

[pahjbo]

Adding the WikiData id had been inspired by your previous presentations on the idea - however, if we successfully do #4 then anyway I think that we would potentially be really using a registry identifier for the "global" identifier for those entities.

[BaptisteCecconi]

Well, in my recent presentations, I mentioned the difficulties to curate the WikiData records if you are not part of the WikiData community. Hence, for ObsFacility, we decided to export the relevant metadata from Wikidata records (which contains most of the identifier crossmatches we wanted to set up, but also containing factual errors that we have not been able to fix, eventhough we tried really hard), and build our own curated set of terms. However, we keep the link Wikidata records for reference.

For research organisations, the ROR is doing the same, keeping a curated link back to Wikidata in addition to the ROR metadata.