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. If you’re reading this post, you probably know that for the last ten years, the Crossref Open Funder Registry (formerly FundRef) has been the default identifier for funding organizations.
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. Now Crossref members can easily see how well they’re doing in providing open affiliation metadata. Read the full text of the Crossref announcement below.
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. “We’ve been eagerly supporting ROR since before it was ROR,” said APS Lead Data Analyst Arthur Smith.
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 . ROR records already include mappings to Crossref Funder IDs, Wikidata, ISNI, and GRID. What additional external IDs do you feel should be added? What criteria do you think other identifiers should meet in order to be added to ROR?
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. Read more about this important work here and in other posts in the matching series.
ROR Curation Lead Adam Buttrick is staying at ROR but moving from Crossref to CDL, which means there's a new position to fill at Crossref. Read more about the Metadata Manager position and consider applying yourself!
In this blog, the first one in a series about metadata matching, we will cover the very basics of matching: what it is, how we do it, and why we devote so much effort to this problem.
Today, we are delighted to announce the launch of version 2 of the ROR schema and API!
The ROR Community turned out in force for our 2024 annual community meeting. Here are the highlights from ROR's fifth anniversary celebration, a community showcase of ROR users, and a panel on the importance of funding metadata.
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.
As we near the end of 2023, we are taking a moment to reflect on what has been another significant year for ROR. We are thrilled that ROR is widely recognized and trusted as the leading standard for organization identifiers.