OpenOrgs: a tool for the disambiguation of organizations

Organizations appear all over the Research & Innovation ecosystem in different shapes and formats: the same organization may appear with different metadata fields, different names - e.g., full legal name, short or alternative names, acronym. The ambiguity of organizations results in a huge deficiency in the exchange of information, the findability of research products, the monitoring of activities, and ultimately building a linked open scholarly communication system. OpenOrgs combines an automated process and human curation to compensate for the lack of information available and improve the organization's discoverability.