country name controlled vocabulary

[David Hays]

We are using the ROR API v2 to retrieve ROR records.  We've noticed that there are several cases where the locations.geonames_details.country_name does not match the name of the country in our CV.  So we thought we'd align with the country name CV that ROR uses...

https://ror.readme.io/docs/api-filtering#filter-by-country-name This indicates that ROR usage of country names follows the ISO 3166 alpha-2 list.  But a number of country_name values used in ROR records do not match this list.

Both our CV and the ROR records refer to "United States" whereas the ISO 3166 alpha-2 list has "United States of America"

Our CV and the ISO list refer to "Russian Federation' but ROR records use "Russia"

Our CV has "Netherlands" but ISO says the current name is "Netherlands, Kingdom of the" with a note that the previous ISO value was "Netherlands".  ROR records refer to "The Netherlands"

What CV for country names does ROR / GeoNames actually use?

Thank you,

David

[Adam Buttrick]

Hi David,

All location data in ROR is derived from the corresponding Geonames ID/record, including the full country names. The list of all Geonames country names is available here:

https://www.geonames.org/countries/

I see the same divergences from the ISO 3166, so we will have to inquire of them about their ultimate derivation and update our documentation to reflect this discrepancy. We're unlikely to decouple from Geonames any time soon, so this Geonames list of country names will be the best near-term source of reference for what is in use.

Thanks,

Adam

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[Amanda French]

Hi David,

Sorry for the error in the documentation! Have updated that page. https://ror.readme.io/docs/api-filtering#filter-by-country-name Have checked the field definitions as well on https://ror.readme.io/docs/fields and that page has the correct source for the country names.

Thanks for the correction.

Cheers,

Amanda