From: Giselle Rawlins <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 12:35:59 +0100
For Immediate Release
1 June 2012 Beaverton, Oregon. Ringgold is delighted to announce that the
Identify database now contains over 300,000 institutional records.
The Identify database provides the unique identification of institutional
entities that are acquiring scholarly and professional content. Each
organisation or part thereof is assigned a unique identification number,
known as the Ringgold Number, which will be joined by an ISNI later this
year. Publishers and intermediaries use the Identify database to
disambiguate their customer data and to compare it to the rest of the
applicable universe of institutions which acquire content.
Identify also contains the details of each organisation's hierarchy and a
range of additional metadata, including classifications. Ringgold is
currently working on building on this metadata by consulting with customers
on a "types" project, adding granularity to the classification system to
improve the ability to run very specific analyses of the data and
development of precise target lists. This project will also add several new
metadata elements including a concept of the level of an institution, where
it sits within a set structure, to enable publishers to apply their own
business rules to customer data and non-customer data alike.
Laura Cox, VP of Sales and Marketing at Ringgold, said: "Ringgold will
continue to expand and enhance the Identify database, and will develop new
tools that benefit publishers who need to understand and utilise their data,
now more than ever, because of the added pressure created by the economic
climate".
About Ringgold:
Ringgold (www.ringgold.com) has created a process for the accurate
identification of institutions and the relationships between them. Each
institutional entity has been assigned its own unique Ringgold ID, which is
mapped to the organizational hierarchy and a range of classification
metadata, including consortium membership.
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For further information please contact [log in to unmask]
Laura Cox, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Ringgold Ltd
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Giselle Rawlins, Customer Support Manager, Ringgold Ltd
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