---
id: "ringgold_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["publishing", "companies"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ringgold_id"
---

# Ringgold ID (`ringgold_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Number of an institution in the Ringgold Identify database, used in the publishing supply chain and in ORCID affiliations.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Publishing and print (publishing), Companies/business/organizations (companies)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{4,6}$
```

## Examples

- `5072` — Wellcome Trust
- `50785` — Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds
- `428759` — Mexican Red Cross

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P3500`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringgold_identifier>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3500>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ringgold_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/publishing/ringgold_id.yaml>