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