Digital Science, a technology company serving the needs of scientific and research communities, will be exhibiting at the ODI Summit 2015, the Open Data Institute's annual conference on innovation and excellence in open data, with speakers from business, government, the arts, startups and charities. The Summit is scheduled for November 3 November, 2015, at BFI London.
Members of the Data Science team will be showcasing GRID, the recently launched Global Research Identifier Database. GRID is a free, easy-to-use online database that opens up information about research organisations worldwide to data scientists, developers and innovators within academic and commercial organisations. The GRID dataset addresses the problem of messy and inconsistent data on research institutions, ensuring that each entity is included correctly and only once.
Built in-house, the online database contains 50,000 manually curated institutional names, along with unique identifiers and geo-location information across 212 countries. The data are derived from openly accessible funder and publication sources such as the NIH reporter, PubMed and the UK Gateway to Research.
It includes the majority of institutions worldwide that have received research funding and is openly available under a CC-BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international licence, which allows the user to share or adapt the content available for any purpose, even commercially.
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