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Organizations in the Geoscience Knowledgebase

Entities representing organizations of various kinds are a core linking concept in the GeoKB. In capacity assessment use cases, they provide a key element for examining collaborations between the USGS and other government agencies as well as stakeholders for the USGS mission. In many other use cases, positive identification of organizational entities, such as those operating mineral development operations, and their characteristics provide the routes we can follow to access important information about activities those entities are engaged in (e.g., mining operations).

Research Organization Registry and OpenAlex

A principal source for positive, unambiguous identification of organizational entities involved in scientific research is a combination of the Research Organization Registry and institutions component of OpenAlex, which are closely connected. In this area, the GeoKB starts from the standpoint of the people linked into the knowledge graph as authors/contributors to products, using their institutional affiliations to determine which organizations are incorporated and represented in the GeoKB.

Organization Classification

The GeoKB represents the same basic high-level classification scheme used in OpenAlex and ROR as a basic ontology for organization types coupled with a deeper level specific classification of USGS organization types as represented on the USGS website. While there are other internal classifiers that are used within the USGS organizational structure, the GeoKB representation is limited to what is evident online in the public web. Organization items will be instances of one of the classifiers in the following graph.

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Projects as Organizations

"Projects" are special type of "organization" is incorporated into the organization ontology. On the one hand, projects are often timebound events. However, in practical use, we often refer to and work with longstanding research or operational projects in the same sense as many other types of organizational entities and incorporate the basic concept into the same organizational scheme.