GRID release 2020-12-09

New GRID entries for:

- 50 missing VA Medical Centers and Healthcare Systems (US)

- ROR requests for additions (September, October and November 2020)

- Various other user requests for additions

- Missing institutes of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences and Chinese Academy of Forestry

QA:

- Review of source data mappings of Agricultural Research Service (US)

- Review of Leibniz Association (Germany)

- Review of Hungarian Academy of Sciences

- Review of RIKEN (Japan)

- Review of Academy of Sciences of Austria

- Review of Academia Sinica (Taiwan)

- Around 200 requests for metadata updates and or additions from users

Updates:

- Update of ROR IDs (ROR Version 6, release October 2020)

- Update and addition of Geonames IDs in GRID

- Macao removed as a country in line with prior change made to Hong Kong

Geonames data is CC-BY, and noted as such in the data.