Organizations¶
This page contains information about the Organizations data source in the Dimensions BigQuery project.
See also
Dimensions DSL API Documentation for this type is also available from here.
Organizations Schema¶
Field |
Type |
Description |
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|
Array of < Literal: String > |
A list of short acronyms the institute is known as (e.g. MRC for the Medical Research Council) |
|
Entity: Address |
Address associated with the institute. |
|
Array of < Literal: String > |
A list of other names the institute is known as. |
|
Literal: Integer |
If the organization has closed, the year when it was closed. |
|
Literal: Integer |
Year when the organization was established |
|
Entity: ExternalIdentifierSet |
Other IDs known to refer to the institute. |
|
Literal: String |
Unique Digital Science identifier for the organization. E.g., “grid.26999.3d”. |
|
Array of < Entity: Label > |
The name of the institute in different languages. |
|
Literal: String |
Country where the organization is incorporated or registered. |
|
Array of < Literal: String > |
URLs linking to things such as the homepage of the institute. |
|
Literal: String |
Name of the organization. E.g., “University of Tokyo” for grid.26999.3d |
|
Array of < Literal: String > |
Child organization IDs. |
|
Array of < Literal: String > |
Parent organization IDs. |
|
Array of < Literal: String > |
Child organization IDs, recursively resolved using the record as the root of the resolved hierarchy. |
|
Array of < Literal: String > |
Related organization IDs. |
|
Literal: String |
Organization identifier where a redirected organization now points to. |
|
Array of < Entity: Relationship > |
Any relationships the institute has to others. |
|
Literal: String |
For an active institute, this is always set to “active”. |
|
Array of < Literal: String > |
Type of an organization Eg. “Company”, “Education”, “Government” etc. |
|
Literal: String |
URL of the wikipedia page for the institute. |
Organizations Links¶
The diagram below provides an overview of the outgoing links from Organizations to other sources.

Auxiliary Entities¶
Address¶
Field |
Type |
Description |
---|---|---|
|
Literal: String |
The name of the city. |
|
Literal: String |
The name of the country. |
|
Literal: String |
The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the country. |
|
Literal: Integer |
The GeoNames ID of the country. |
|
Entity: GeoNamesCity |
The GeoNames data of the institutes associated city. |
|
Literal: Float |
Latitude of the institute. |
|
Literal: String |
First line of the address. |
|
Literal: String |
Second line of the address. |
|
Literal: String |
Third line of the address. |
|
Literal: Float |
Longitude of the institute. |
|
Literal: String |
The postcode/zipcode. |
|
Literal: String |
The name of the state/region. |
|
Literal: String |
The ISO 3166-2 region code. |
ExternalIdentifier¶
Field |
Type |
Description |
---|---|---|
|
Array of < Literal: String > |
A list of all IDs for the ‘External ID type’ format. |
|
Literal: String |
The preferred ID for this type, or null if none are preferred. |
ExternalIdentifierSet¶
Field |
Type |
Description |
---|---|---|
|
Entity: ExternalIdentifier |
CNRS IDs for this organization. |
|
Entity: ExternalIdentifier |
Fundref IDs for this organization. |
|
Entity: ExternalIdentifier |
HESA IDs for this organization. |
|
Entity: ExternalIdentifier |
ISNI IDs for this organization. |
|
Entity: ExternalIdentifier |
OrgRef IDs for this organization. |
|
Entity: ExternalIdentifier |
ROR IDs for this organization. |
|
Entity: ExternalIdentifier |
UCAS IDs for this organization. |
|
Entity: ExternalIdentifier |
UKPRN IDs for this organization. |
|
Entity: ExternalIdentifier |
WikiData IDs for this organization. |
GeoNamesAdmin¶
Field |
Type |
Description |
---|---|---|
|
Literal: String |
|
|
Literal: String |
|
|
Literal: String |
GeoNamesCity¶
Field |
Type |
Description |
---|---|---|
|
Literal: String |
The name of the city. |
|
Entity: GeoNamesAdmin |
The admin1 region in GeoNames. |
|
Entity: GeoNamesAdmin |
The geonames_admin2 region in GeoNames. |
|
Literal: Integer |
The GeoNames ID. |
|
Entity: GeoNamesLicense |
|
|
Entity: GeoNamesLevel |
The NUTS level 1 region the GeoNames city is in. |
|
Entity: GeoNamesLevel |
The NUTS level 2 region the GeoNames city is in. |
|
Entity: GeoNamesLevel |
The NUTS level 3 region the GeoNames city is in. |
GeoNamesLevel¶
Field |
Type |
Description |
---|---|---|
|
Literal: String |
|
|
Literal: String |
GeoNamesLicense¶
Field |
Type |
Description |
---|---|---|
|
Literal: String |
|
|
Literal: String |
Label¶
Field |
Type |
Description |
---|---|---|
|
Literal: String |
The ISO-639-1 language code. |
|
Literal: String |
The institute name in a language variant. |
Relationship¶
Field |
Type |
Description |
---|---|---|
|
Literal: String |
The organization ID of the related institute. |
|
Literal: String |
The name of the related institute. |
|
Literal: String |
The type of relationship E.g. ‘Parent’, ‘Child’. |