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Chris Barnes from the University of Florida has been investigating funding organizations, and has discussed this on an Apps & Tools call and demonstrated work to date at the VIVO Hackathon in October, 2014. His work involves supplementing FundRef organizations with additional information that will provide more specific geography and potentially support generating maps of funding sources from VIVO data.
Recently the University of Hannover has published data on German states and cities in VIVO format on GitHub at https://github.com/HsH-Bibliothek/geodata and given it a DOI
There are further longstanding and new efforts to identify stable identifiers for organizations:
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