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Recently the University of Applied Sciences and Arts 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
Exploratory work was done to harvest University names from several VIVOs and link those to OrgRef using DBPedia URIs. This data is available for querying and browsing via a Linked Data Fragments server - http://ldf-vivo.herokuapp.com/orgref.
There are further longstanding and new efforts to identify stable identifiers for organizations:
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