# Karst Research Institute
**Wikidata**: [Q49237187](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49237187)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/karst-research-institute

## Summary
Karst Research Institute is a research institute in Slovenia, located in Postojna. It is part of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and is classified as a research institute.

## Key Facts
- Karst Research Institute is an instance of a **research institute** (an organization whose primary purpose is research).
- The institute is located in **Postojna, Slovenia**.
- Parent organization: **Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts**.
- Location (facility): **Karst Research Institute building**.
- ISNI: **0000000110917785**.
- ROR ID: **01ffqaw45**.
- GRID ID: **grid.493379.3**.
- The institute has a Wikipedia sitelink in **Slovenian (sl)**.

## FAQs
### Q: What is Karst Research Institute?
A: Karst Research Institute is a research institute in Slovenia. It is located in Postojna and is part of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

### Q: Where is Karst Research Institute located?
A: It is located in Postojna, Slovenia. The listed location is the Karst Research Institute building.

### Q: What organization is Karst Research Institute part of?
A: Karst Research Institute is a unit of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. This relationship is recorded as its parent organization.

### Q: What identifiers are associated with Karst Research Institute?
A: It has multiple authority and research identifiers, including ISNI 0000000110917785, ROR 01ffqaw45, and GRID grid.493379.3. Additional catalog identifiers include VIAF 154226564 and GND 1006754-1.

## Why It Matters
Karst Research Institute matters as a dedicated research institute focused enough to be uniquely identified across major international research and library authority systems. Its placement within the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts situates it inside a larger national research structure, which helps standardize how the institute is referenced, cataloged, and linked across databases. Being clearly located in Postojna, Slovenia, and tied to a specific building also supports unambiguous institutional identification. The breadth of identifiers (e.g., ISNI, ROR, GRID, VIAF, GND, Library of Congress authority ID) improves data quality for scholarship, library cataloging, research analytics, and interoperability between systems. In practice, these identifiers reduce confusion between similarly named institutions and make it easier to connect publications, affiliations, and records to the correct organization.

## Notable For
- Being a **research institute** formally associated with the **Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts**.
- Having a recognized institutional identifier in **ROR (01ffqaw45)** used for research organization disambiguation.
- Having a **GRID** entry (**grid.493379.3**) referenced in academic-source-linked data.
- Being represented in multiple major authority systems (e.g., **ISNI**, **VIAF**, **GND**, **Library of Congress**).

## Body
### Classification and Type
- Entity type: **research institute**.
- Related class definition: a research institute is an organization whose primary purpose is research.

### Organizational Relationships
- Parent organization: **Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts**.

### Location
- Country: **Slovenia**.
- Located in: **Postojna**.
- Listed facility/location: **Karst Research Institute building**.

### Identifiers and Authority Control
- ISNI: **0000000110917785**
- ROR ID: **01ffqaw45**
- GRID ID: **grid.493379.3**
- VIAF ID: **154226564**
- GND ID: **1006754-1**
- IdRef ID: **118762680**
- NUKAT ID: **n2002012891**
- BIBSYS ID: **90891394**
- CINII Research ID: **1140563741536771328**
- NACSIS-CAT Author ID: **DA06951184** (linked to CINII Research ID 1140563741536771328; accessed 2023-03-21 in the provided reference metadata)
- Library of Congress authority ID: **n82105499**
- National Library of Israel J9U ID: **987007398097905171**
- NL CR AUT ID: **ko2003203407** (name string qualifier: “Inštitut za raziskovanje krasa (Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti)”)

### Wikimedia and Media
- Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Titov_trg_2.jpg
- Wikipedia languages present in the provided data: **sl** (Slovenian)

### Sitelinks
- Sitelink count in the provided data: **1**

## References

1. CiNii Research
2. GRID Release 2018-02-08
3. National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File