The Flemish Organization Registry. Creating a local extension of a global database.

During a large author affiliation data coding project of academic publications in Flanders, it was discovered that one third of the mentioned organizations were not included in the global reference database, the Research Organization Registry (ROR). The coding could only be completed by adding new organizations to a local copy of ROR. This tool evolved into a new instrument: the Flemish Organization Registry, creating additional unique identification codes for all organizations involved in research in Flanders and enabling the connection of publication, project and government databases on an organizational level. This presentation zooms in on this project, demonstrating how to extend a global (organization) database with a local dimension.