A database with academic organisations, with a PID per organisation.

Interesting initiatives

Germany

(info from Thorsten Trippel, Tübingen)

Yes, sure, we use the German National Library as a resource for that purpose, there is even a SPARQL endpoint somewhere. Problem: we actually only have unique identifiers, not institution names that are unique. But we use that for disambiguation and combination. You'll find some information at ​http://www.d-nb.de/standardisierung/normdateien/gnd.htm, don't know if this is also available in English, though, but let me know if your customers need assistance.

BTW: the trick here is: every institution or person with a (bookish) publication in German or in Germany will be recorded by the national library. Chances are really really good that most Dutch institutions are also in there, if there was a publication in German or joined work with a German institution.

Netherlands

(info from Dieter)

• I remember having seen a draft proposal from someone at surf foundation to use the TLD name as PID (eg mpi.nl).
• there is a CLARIN-NL project (CLAVAS) that will address a vocabulary service for long vocabularies, contact: Hennie Brugman

CLARIN-EU

All CLARIN members are downloadable via ​http://www.clarin.eu/export_organisations (not all fields are in there but that can be changed easily) and can be edited/viewed via ​http://www.clarin.eu/view_organisations