https://ror.org/feed.xmlRecent content on Research Organization Registry (ROR)Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-ussupport@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))All ROR IDs and metadata are provided under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. All other content on ror.org is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.Wed, 20 May 2026 08:23:09 -0400https://ror.org/blog/2026-03-27-strengthening-commitment-to-posi/Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2026-03-27-strengthening-commitment-to-posi/Since its founding, ROR has been committed to providing open infrastructure for the global community. As part of this commitment, in December 2020, ROR released a public self-assessment of our alignment with the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI).https://ror.org/blog/2026-03-23-europepmc-scilifelab-ror/Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2026-03-23-europepmc-scilifelab-ror/Europe PMC has long been at the forefront of ROR adoption. In their latest ROR-related project, they’ve used ROR in publication metadata to help their partner SciLifeLab, a major research facility and funder, make almost 17,000 linked research publications discoverable on Europe PMC.https://ror.org/blog/2026-03-17-janeway-and-ror/Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2026-03-17-janeway-and-ror/Joe Muller, Senior Publishing Technologies Developer at the Open Library of Humanities, tells us in this case study how and why the Janeway platform uses ROR, ensuring unambiguous author affiliations by retrieving ROR IDs from ORCID profiles as well as allowing authors to find their institution with a ROR-powered search.https://ror.org/blog/2026-03-03-ror-annual-meeting-highlights/Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2026-03-03-ror-annual-meeting-highlights/In the ROR Annual Community Meeting in February, we celebrated seven years of ROR and the ROR community that makes it all possible in three terrific online sessions featuring ROR team members and ROR enthusiasts from all over the world.https://ror.org/blog/2026-02-11-dutch-research-council-and-ror/Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:32:15 -0500support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2026-02-11-dutch-research-council-and-ror/The Dutch Research Council (NWO) announced recently that it has integrated ROR in its open API. Hans de Jonge, director of Open Science, tells us why and how NWO uses ROR in this latest installment of our case study series.https://ror.org/blog/2025-12-16-year-in-review/Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:12:19 -0500support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-12-16-year-in-review/This time last year, when we reflected on ROR’s milestones in 2024, one of the major highlights was the launch of version 2 of the ROR schema and API.https://ror.org/blog/2025-12-12-ror-earthscope-organizational-partnerships/Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-12-12-ror-earthscope-organizational-partnerships/In the past few years, a great deal of attention has been paid to the importance of using ROR IDs to identify organizations that researchers are affiliated with.https://ror.org/blog/2025-12-02-announcing-a-new-affiliation-matching-strategy/Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:27:10 -0500support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-12-02-announcing-a-new-affiliation-matching-strategy/We are delighted to announce the launch of a new matching strategy in the ROR API to help you match complex affiliation text strings to ROR IDs at scale.https://ror.org/blog/2025-10-22-cambridge-university-press-ror/Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-10-22-cambridge-university-press-ror/John Lewis, Data Operations Manager at Cambridge University Press, tells us why and how Cambridge uses ROR in this latest installment of our case study series.https://ror.org/blog/2025-10-08-journey-of-a-curation-request/Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-10-08-journey-of-a-curation-request/Have you ever wondered exactly what happens once you request a new ROR record or suggest a change to an existing ROR record?https://ror.org/blog/2025-10-02-welcome-joseph-rhoads/Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:49:25 -0400support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-10-02-welcome-joseph-rhoads/We are thrilled to introduce the newest member of the ROR pride: Joseph Rhoads joined the ROR team in September as our new Technical Lead.https://ror.org/blog/2025-09-09-digicorepro/Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-09-09-digicorepro/In this interview with HighWire Press’s Tony Alves, we learn that thanks to customer requests and a PID-aware development process, the publishing platform DigiCore Pro uses ROR in form lookups and automatic extraction processes for author affiliations, funder identification, peer reviewer affiliations, user disambiguation, and research integrity.https://ror.org/blog/2025-07-18-symplectic-adds-ror-integration/Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-07-18-symplectic-adds-ror-integration/Exciting news: Symplectic, a global leader in research information management systems, has integrated ROR into its flagship platform, Symplectic Elements.https://ror.org/blog/2025-06-11-v1-sunset/Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-06-11-v1-sunset/One of the highlights of 2024 for the ROR team and the ROR community was the release of version 2 of the ROR API and schema in April 2024.https://ror.org/blog/2025-05-08-usdot-repository/Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-05-08-usdot-repository/The ROSA P digital repository, operated by the US National Transportation Library – part of the US Department of Transportation – is one of the top ten providers of ROR IDs for publisher identification and ROR IDs for funder identification in DataCite DOI metadata.https://ror.org/blog/2025-05-01-oareport/Thu, 01 May 2025 10:04:35 -0400support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-05-01-oareport/In this dual case study, we learn why the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) relies on OA.Report and why OA.https://ror.org/blog/2025-03-05-using-ror-ids-in-place-of-funder-ids/Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:46:09 -0500support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-03-05-using-ror-ids-in-place-of-funder-ids/Crossref has announced today that its members can now use ROR IDs to identify funders in any place where they currently use Funder IDs in their metadata.https://ror.org/blog/2025-02-11-ror-annual-meeting-highlights/Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-02-11-ror-annual-meeting-highlights/It’s been six years since the initial launch of ROR, and our Annual Community Meeting has become a welcome tradition for the ROR community in every new year.https://ror.org/blog/2025-01-27-faster-affiliation-matching/Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:14:38 -0500support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-01-27-faster-affiliation-matching/OpenAlex has added a new metadata matching strategy co-developed by ROR and Crossref to its affiliation matching processes: ROR is also investigating the prospect of incorporating this new matching strategy into the ROR API in 2025.https://ror.org/blog/2025-01-09-metadata-matching-beyond-correctness/Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:37:34 -0500support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2025-01-09-metadata-matching-beyond-correctness/The fifth and final blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk outlines a set of pragmatic criteria for making decisions about metadata matching.https://ror.org/blog/2024-12-18-clarivate-integrates-ror/Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:49:54 -0500support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-12-18-clarivate-integrates-ror/We are pleased to announce that Web of Science Core Collection™ now includes Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifiers. Users of the Web of Science™ can search for publications associated with an institution by using a ROR ID, and ROR IDs are available in organization profiles.https://ror.org/blog/2024-12-17-year-in-review/Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:44:18 -0500support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-12-17-year-in-review/As 2024 comes to a close, we’re reflecting on where ROR is now, and the answer is unmistakable: ROR is just about everywhere.https://ror.org/blog/2024-11-26-rrid-ror-facilities/Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:51:10 -0500support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-11-26-rrid-ror-facilities/This blog post explores the difference between “core facilities” in RRID and “facilities” in ROR and provides guidance for those who run facilities on how to effectively use these identifiers.https://ror.org/blog/2024-11-15-case-study-curvenote/Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-11-15-case-study-curvenote/In this interview with Curvenote cofounder Rowan Cockett, we envision a world in which an authoring and publication platform helps scientists collaborate earlier, publish faster, and easily use structured metadata to create fully connected and highly interactive publications and portfolios.https://ror.org/blog/2024-11-06-how-good-is-your-matching/Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:21:55 -0500support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-11-06-how-good-is-your-matching/The fourth blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk explains how to measure the quality of different matching strategies with an evaluation dataset and metrics.https://ror.org/blog/2024-09-03-welcome-riley-marsh/Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-09-03-welcome-riley-marsh/We are thrilled to introduce a new member of the ROR pride: Riley Marsh joined the ROR team in August as our new Metadata Manager.https://ror.org/blog/2024-08-29-api-client-identification/Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:19:41 -0400support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-08-29-api-client-identification/We’re looking for your feedback on a draft proposal for managing ROR API client identification with ‘mailto’ parameters or API keys, and comments are open through October 4th, 2024.https://ror.org/blog/2024-08-28-the-myth-of-perfect-metadata-matching/Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-08-28-the-myth-of-perfect-metadata-matching/The third blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk discusses a few common myths about metadata matching that are often encountered when interacting with users, developers, integrators, and other stakeholders.https://ror.org/blog/2024-08-23-case-study-optica-publishing-group/Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-08-23-case-study-optica-publishing-group/Optica Publishing Group was one of the earliest publishers to send ROR IDs to Crossref in DOI metadata. In this interview, we speak with them to learn more about their rigorous processes for cleaning organization names.https://ror.org/blog/2024-08-06-using-ror-for-funder-identification/Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-08-06-using-ror-for-funder-identification/Several widely used scholarly systems are using ROR IDs to identify and disambiguate funding organizations. In this post, we’ll give you a glimpse of how and why these systems use ROR IDs as funder identifiers.https://ror.org/blog/2024-07-25-re-introducing-participation-reports/Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:32:47 -0400support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-07-25-re-introducing-participation-reports/Crossref, with the help of CWTS Leiden, has just released an exciting update to their participation reports, adding metrics for both affiliations in general and ROR IDs in particular.https://ror.org/blog/2024-07-23-aps-adopts-ror/Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-07-23-aps-adopts-ror/The American Physical Society (APS) has become the largest society publisher to adopt ROR, incorporating it into their manuscript submission process and sending ROR IDs in author affiliation metadata to Crossref.https://ror.org/blog/2024-07-18-id-ideas/Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-07-18-id-ideas/We’re looking for your feedback on a draft proposal for criteria to include additional external identifiers in ROR records, and comments are open through August 16th.https://ror.org/blog/2024-06-27-anatomy-of-metadata-matching/Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-06-27-anatomy-of-metadata-matching/The second blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk describes some basic matching-related terminology and the components of a matching process, then poses some typical product questions to consider when developing or integrating matching solutions.https://ror.org/blog/2024-05-22-new-positions/Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-05-22-new-positions/ROR is fortunate to have a small but mighty team that strives every day to make ROR as good as it can be and to support the diverse needs of our global community.https://ror.org/blog/2024-05-16-metadata-matching-101/Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-05-16-metadata-matching-101/ROR Curation Lead Adam Buttrick has been working with Crossref Head of Strategic Initiatives Dominika Tkaczyk to explore improvements in automatic metadata matching strategies that can result in better metadata for everyone.https://ror.org/blog/2024-04-15-announcing-ror-v2/Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-04-15-announcing-ror-v2/Today, we are delighted to announce the launch of version 2 of the ROR schema and API! This new version of our schema and API will serve as a rock-solid foundation for everything ROR users want to accomplish now and in the future.https://ror.org/blog/2024-02-20-ror-fifth-anniversary/Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-02-20-ror-fifth-anniversary/Every year since 2019, we’ve celebrated ROR’s anniversary at the same time we hold our annual community meeting, updating everyone on what ROR has accomplished in the last year and expressing our gratitude for the help of the ROR community.https://ror.org/blog/2024-01-17-coki-case-study/Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2024-01-17-coki-case-study/Professor Cameron Neylon of Curtin University talks telephones, power outlets, chat services, persistent identifier education, federated versus centralized curation, providing actionable information to universities, and why the COKI Open Access Dashboard relies on ROR.https://ror.org/blog/2023-12-15-ror-year-in-review-2023/Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-12-15-ror-year-in-review-2023/As we near the end of 2023, we are taking a moment to reflect on what has been another significant year for ROR.https://ror.org/blog/2023-11-27-clear-skies-case-study/Mon, 27 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-11-27-clear-skies-case-study/Adam Day, CEO of Clear Skies Ltd., discusses how he works to improve research integrity with tools like Papermill Alarm, why such tools can assist but can’t replace human investigators, and what’s so important for data scientists about free and open identifers like ROR.https://ror.org/blog/2023-10-12-ror-funder-registry-overlap/Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-10-12-ror-funder-registry-overlap/Following on the announcement that Crossref’s Open Funder Registry will be merging with ROR after 2024, we’d like to do a deep dive into the specifics of the evidence that ROR is ready to take on the important work that the Open Funder Registry has been doing: identifying research funders in a clean, consistent, comprehensive, and interoperable way.https://ror.org/blog/2023-09-14-beta-test/Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-09-14-beta-test/After nearly a year of planning and community input, we are thrilled to release a beta version of ROR’s first major schema and API update, which is open to the public for testing through October 16, 2023.https://ror.org/blog/2023-09-13-openalex-case-study/Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-09-13-openalex-case-study/Justin Barrett, Lead Machine Learning Engineer for OpenAlex at OurResearch, talks with ROR Technical Community Manager Amanda French and ROR Curation Lead Adam Buttrick about using ROR both as an identifier for institutions in OpenAlex and as a dataset for training machine learning models that enrich OpenAlex metadata.https://ror.org/blog/2023-09-11-hiring-curation-contractor/Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-09-11-hiring-curation-contractor/ROR is seeking a short-term curation support contractor as registry curation activities continue to expand. Please consider submitting an application and help spread the word to your networks!https://ror.org/blog/2023-09-07-open-funder-registry-transition-ror/Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-09-07-open-funder-registry-transition-ror/Crossref has announced a long-term plan to deprecate the Open Funder Registry and merge it with ROR in order to make workflows more efficient for all concerned.https://ror.org/blog/2023-08-22-researchequals-case-study/Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-08-22-researchequals-case-study/Chris Hartgerink, the founder of Liberate Science, discusses why and how they integrated ROR into the modular publishing platform ResearchEquals for author affiliations in user profiles and Crossref DOIs and explains why they live streamed all eight hours of the work.https://ror.org/blog/2023-07-24-community-supported-infra/Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-07-24-community-supported-infra/As we have crossed the mid-point of 2023, we’re taking a moment to reflect on what has already been a very busy year for ROR!https://ror.org/blog/2023-06-30-europe-pmc-case-study/Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-06-30-europe-pmc-case-study/Michael Parkin, data scientist at EMBL-EBI who helps maintain Europe PMC, explains why and how ROR helps with assessing funding impact and tracking researcher collaborations.https://ror.org/blog/2023-05-10-datasalon-case-study/Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-05-10-datasalon-case-study/In January of 2022, DataSalon announced a full integration of ROR into its scholarly publishing analytics products MasterVision and PaperStack. DataSalon’s Client Services Director Andy Dobson sat down with us to tell us all about how they draw on fifteen years of data experience to match organizational affiliations in publisher data to ROR IDs.https://ror.org/blog/2023-05-09-pids-open-science-latin-america/Tue, 09 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-05-09-pids-open-science-latin-america/Cross-posted by DataCite and ORCID Versión en español sigue abajo Persistent identifiers are playing a key role in driving more robust research infrastructure and open science initiatives across Latin America.https://ror.org/blog/2023-03-30-scholastica-case-study/Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-03-30-scholastica-case-study/Scholastica, a journal publishing technology solutions provider, has incorporated ROR IDs into its Peer Review System, Production Service, and Open Access Publishing Platform.https://ror.org/blog/2023-03-28-europe-pmc-grant-finder/Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-03-28-europe-pmc-grant-finder/Europe PMC, one of the largest providers of high-performance search tools for life sciences literature, has announced that its Grant Finder now incorporates Research Organization Registry (ROR) IDs to help users find active and completed grants awarded by Europe PMC funders.https://ror.org/blog/2023-03-20-rup-silverchair-case-study/Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-03-20-rup-silverchair-case-study/Rockefeller University Press has incorporated ROR into many aspects of their workflow, and their platform provider Silverchair was there to help.https://ror.org/blog/2023-02-27-parents-children-and-other-relationships-in-ror/Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-02-27-parents-children-and-other-relationships-in-ror/One common question we receive about ROR registry records is whether they reflect organizational hierarchy and relationships between organizations – yes, they do!https://ror.org/blog/2023-02-23-caltech-case-study/Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-02-23-caltech-case-study/In this case study we interview Tom Morrell, Research Data Specialist at Caltech Library and key contributor to the open source research data management system InvenioRDM, about Caltech’s early adoption of ROR IDs in their repository systems and why InvenioRDM is architected with ROR IDs for funders and author affiliations.https://ror.org/blog/2023-02-13-ror-turns-four/Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-02-13-ror-turns-four/Four years ago, ROR was first introduced to the world at an open community meeting the day before PIDapalooza. Since then, we have continued to celebrate ROR’s anniversary every year with a big public event to bring together the broad network of ROR users and supporters and reinforce ROR’s commitment to developing open, sustainable, community-driven infrastructure.https://ror.org/blog/2023-01-24-fairsharing-case-study/Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-01-24-fairsharing-case-study/In this installment of the ROR Case Studies series, we talk with Allyson Lister, Content and Community Lead for FAIRsharing, a cross-disciplinary registry of scientific standards, databases, and policies, about how and why FAIRsharing used ROR to help make organizations first-class citizens in their data model.https://ror.org/blog/2023-01-23-steering-group-additions/Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2023-01-23-steering-group-additions/ROR is excited to welcome two new members to its Steering Group this year: Joy Owango from the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) and Natasha Simons from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).https://ror.org/blog/2022-12-20-year-in-review/Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2022-12-20-year-in-review/2022 has been a momentous year for ROR! We experienced significant growth, reached critical milestones, and established a foundation for long-term sustainability.https://ror.org/blog/2022-12-14-schema-scheming/Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2022-12-14-schema-scheming/We’ve run several calls for feedback in 2022, but here’s one you’ll definitely want to chime in on: our draft proposal of major changes to the ROR data model for schema version 2.https://ror.org/blog/2022-12-07-handling-org-status/Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2022-12-07-handling-org-status/2022 was a big year for ROR in many ways, but it was especially notable from a tech standpoint. In early 2022, we built tools and processes that allowed ROR to begin curating the registry separately from GRID, which quickly opened possibilities for tackling projects that had been waiting on the back burner until ROR became fully independent.https://ror.org/blog/2022-11-28-case-study-osf/Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2022-11-28-case-study-osf/This conversation with Eric Olson of the Center for Open Science is the first in a new series of interviews, “Case Studies in ROR Integration,” a series designed to provide in-depth detail on why and how people are choosing to integrate ROR IDs into their systems.https://ror.org/blog/2022-11-22-scoss-selects-ror/Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2022-11-22-scoss-selects-ror/We are thrilled to announce that ROR has been selected by SCOSS as essential open infrastructure and will be highlighted in the latest SCOSS campaign, which kicked off this week.https://ror.org/blog/2022-10-10-strengthening-sustainability/Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2022-10-10-strengthening-sustainability/Since its launch in 2019, ROR has been charting a unique path toward sustainability. In this blog post, we want to provide an update for the community on where this path is taking us.https://ror.org/blog/2022-08-31-name-metadata-in-ror/Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2022-08-31-name-metadata-in-ror/The ROR registry includes unique IDs and associated metadata records for 100,000+ research organizations. Each one of these organizations has at least one name.https://ror.org/blog/2022-06-13-welcome-amanda-french/Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2022-06-13-welcome-amanda-french/We are thrilled to introduce a new member of the ROR pride: Amanda French has joined ROR as our full-time Technical Community Manager.https://ror.org/blog/2022-04-11-new-steering-group-members/Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2022-04-11-new-steering-group-members/ROR is excited to welcome three new Steering Group members: Lautaro Matas, Kathleen Shearer, and Chris Shillum. Inaugurated in late 2019, the ROR Steering Group is an advisory body that supports the registry’s strategic planning and decision-making activities.https://ror.org/blog/2022-03-17-first-independent-release/Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2022-03-17-first-independent-release/The ROR registry has grown! We are excited to announce a new ROR registry release. With this update, the registry has grown to 102,559 records.https://ror.org/blog/2022-02-28-help-sustain-ror/Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2022-02-28-help-sustain-ror/ROR begins a new round of community fundraising Since ROR launched in 2019, we have been charting a path to sustainability that leverages our broad community network and diversifies our funding sources.https://ror.org/blog/2022-02-18-hiring-technical-community-manager/Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2022-02-18-hiring-technical-community-manager/ROR is hiring! We are looking for a full-time Technical Community Manager to expand the adoption and integration of ROR throughout the global scholarly communications ecosystem.https://ror.org/blog/2022-02-14-new-year-at-ror/Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2022-02-14-new-year-at-ror/The end of January 2022 marked the third anniversary of ROR’s launch at PIDapalooza 2019 in Dublin. Continuing with a tradition from the prior two years (2020 in Lisbon, and 2021 on Zoom), we marked the occasion with a community celebration to reflect on ROR’s progress and discuss the work that lies ahead.https://ror.org/blog/2021-12-08-hiring-technical-lead/Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2021-12-08-hiring-technical-lead/ROR is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join as our Technical Lead, based at DataCite. You will be leading, developing, and architecting ROR services and infrastructure.https://ror.org/blog/2021-10-22-orcid-integrates-ror/Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2021-10-22-orcid-integrates-ror/Add Research Institution Identifiers with ROR! As part of our ongoing commitment to increase value to our researchers and our members, we are pleased to announce that the Research Organization Registry (ROR) has been added to the ORCID Registry as a disambiguated Organization ID.https://ror.org/blog/2021-10-01-hiring-curation-lead/Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2021-10-01-hiring-curation-lead/ROR is looking for a data manager to lead metadata curation activities for the registry, including coordinating registry updates and maintenance, working with ROR’s community curation advisors, and developing and implement long-term curation policies and practices.https://ror.org/blog/2021-09-29-ror-grid-final-sync/Wed, 29 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2021-09-29-ror-grid-final-sync/In July, ROR and GRID announced that the two registries would begin to diverge in Q4 2021 following GRID’s final public release.https://ror.org/blog/2021-07-21-ror-resources-roundup/Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2021-07-21-ror-resources-roundup/ROR adoption is ramping up, and we’ve been hard at work during the past few months creating resources (or should we say ROR-sources?https://ror.org/blog/2021-07-12-ror-grid-the-way-forward/Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2021-07-12-ror-grid-the-way-forward/Earlier today, GRID announced that it will discontinue its schedule of public releases in Q4 2021. This decision marks an important and exciting milestone in the evolution of both organization registries.https://ror.org/blog/2021-03-23-ror-annual-report/Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2021-03-23-ror-annual-report/ROR is a specific type of identifier and a specific type of initiative that does not always fit neatly into pre-defined notions and categories.https://ror.org/blog/2021-02-12-ror-pidapalooza21/Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2021-02-12-ror-pidapalooza21/In the same week that ROR celebrated its third birthday, PIDapalooza celebrated the fifth festival of persistent identifiers, also as a virtual event.https://ror.org/blog/2021-02-03-ror-annual-meeting/Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2021-02-03-ror-annual-meeting/ROR had a birthday last week and marked the occasion just like anyone else celebrating a birthday during the pandemic: with a virtual party!https://ror.org/blog/2020-12-16-aligning-ror-with-posi/Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2020-12-16-aligning-ror-with-posi/The scholarly community depends on a network of open identifier and metadata infrastructure. Content identifiers and contributor identifiers are foundational components of this network.https://ror.org/blog/2020-12-11-the-path-to-ror-adoption/Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2020-12-11-the-path-to-ror-adoption/ROR offers an open and community-driven solution for tracking research outputs by institutions. ROR identifiers for research organizations are not meant to exist on their own.https://ror.org/blog/2020-11-18-what-does-it-mean-to-be-in-ror/Mon, 16 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2020-11-18-what-does-it-mean-to-be-in-ror/Some of the most frequent questions ROR receives are about what it means when an organization is in ROR, and how organizations end up in the registry in the first place.https://ror.org/blog/2020-11-11-who-is-the-ror-community/Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2020-11-11-who-is-the-ror-community/The Research Organization Registry is a cross-organizational and multi-stakeholder initiative. ROR is run by a small group of steering organizations in collaboration with a broad network of community advisors and supporters.https://ror.org/blog/2020-08-20-ror-progress-update/Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2020-08-20-ror-progress-update/We’re more than halfway through 2020, and it has already been a year like no other. In the midst of global upheaval and uncertainty, work on the Research Organization Registry continues.https://ror.org/blog/2020-03-10-early-adopters-of-organization-ids/Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2020-03-10-early-adopters-of-organization-ids/Version 4.3 of the DataCite Metadata Schema released during August, 2019 included (among other things), the capability to provide persistent identifiers for affiliated organizations in the metadata (Dasler and deSmaele, Identify your affiliation with Metadata Schema 4.https://ror.org/blog/2020-02-10-ror-ing-in-portugal/Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2020-02-10-ror-ing-in-portugal/ROR had a party in Portugal last month! Sixty friends - some new, some old - came together in Lisbon on the eve of PIDapalooza 2020 to celebrate ROR’s unofficial first birthday, marking one year since the registry debuted at a community meeting in Dublin in January 2019.https://ror.org/blog/2019-12-17-year-in-review/Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2019-12-17-year-in-review/Flashback to one year ago, December 2018: The ROR project team was putting the final pieces in place to launch the ROR MVR (minimum viable registry) in January.https://ror.org/blog/2019-12-02-note-of-thanks/Mon, 02 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2019-12-02-note-of-thanks/As we announced previously, ROR launched a fundraising campaign in October to ensure the registry’s long-term sustainability. We are grateful for the community supporters who have already contributed to this campaign.https://ror.org/blog/2019-11-25-untangling-affiliation-strings/Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2019-11-25-untangling-affiliation-strings/ROR launched in January 2019 with records for nearly 100,000 research organizations, all with unique IDs and associated metadata. ROR data is useful for a variety of reasons and for a variety of users, including both humans and machines.https://ror.org/blog/2019-11-22-meet-the-ror-steering-group/Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2019-11-22-meet-the-ror-steering-group/ROR is thrilled to announce that we are welcoming new members to the ROR Steering Group. The group now consists of the following members:https://ror.org/blog/2019-11-13-ror-fundraising-update/Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2019-11-13-ror-fundraising-update/ROR launched a fundraising campaign in October to call on community stakeholders to pitch in toward supporting ROR’s long-term sustainability. While the overall goal of this campaign is to raise $175,000 from community supporters over the next two years, we set an initial target of $75,000 by the end of 2019.https://ror.org/blog/2019-10-16-help-sustain-ror/Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2019-10-16-help-sustain-ror/ROR is the Research Organization Registry, a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization in the world.https://ror.org/blog/2019-07-10-ror-ing-together-with-dryad/Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2019-07-10-ror-ing-together-with-dryad/How many datasets have been published in Dryad from researchers at the University of California? This question is surprisingly complicated. A short answer might be, we don’t know!https://ror.org/blog/2019-07-02-ror-development-update/Tue, 02 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2019-07-02-ror-development-update/ROR is an open registry for every research organization in the world, aiming to solve the problem of identifying which organizations are affiliated with which research outputs.https://ror.org/blog/2019-02-12-ror-recap-from-pidapalooza/Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2019-02-12-ror-recap-from-pidapalooza/In the days following the ROR community meeting in Dublin, we had a chance to spread the word about ROR in presentations at PIDapalooza, the annual festival for persistent identifiers.https://ror.org/blog/2019-02-10-announcing-first-ror-prototype/Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2019-02-10-announcing-first-ror-prototype/What has hundreds of heads, 91,000 affiliations, and roars like a lion? If you guessed the Research Organization Registry community, you’d be absolutely right!https://ror.org/blog/2018-12-02-the-ror-of-the-crowd/Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2018-12-02-the-ror-of-the-crowd/Earlier this year, the Org ID Working Group wrapped up their work. There was a lot of talk about governance, with options discussed for creating an entirely new independent organization; and/or having a looser group of stakeholders.https://ror.org/blog/2018-08-02-working-group-recap/Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR))https://ror.org/blog/2018-08-02-working-group-recap/Over the past couple of years, a group of organizations with a shared purpose—California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID—invested our time and energy into launching the Org ID initiative, with the goal of defining requirements for an open, community-led organization identifier registry.