Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A Department of Chemistry as an OrgUnit with parent OrgUnit 'Faculty of Science' and a ROR ID on the top-level University.
- Is an instance
A research centre dissolved in 2024 retained as a closed OrgUnit so historical publications continue to be attributable to it.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A building or physical address is not an OrgUnit.
- Not an instance
A budget code is not an OrgUnit, though it may be linked to one.
Editorial commentary
Organization units (OrgUnits) capture both the top-level organisation (the university) and its internal structure (departments, labs). CRIS-level OrgUnit modelling distinguishes structural change (re-organisation, mergers, splits) from current state by carrying time-bounded relationships. Linking the top-level OrgUnit to its ROR ID is now standard practice; some CRIS deployments also expose internal OrgUnit identifiers as resolvable URIs through institutional persistent-identifier strategies.
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Also known as
OrgUnit · Organisational unit
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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vocab-term="Organization unit"
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"description": "In CRIS terminology, an entity representing a structural component of a research organisation — a faculty, school, department, institute, centre, lab, or research group — with its own identifier, name, parent and child relationships, type, start and end dates, and links to People, Projects, and Outputs.",
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"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/organization-unit",
"sameAs": [
"OrgUnit",
"Organisational unit"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
