Team Updates

Job Posting: ROR Technical Lead

By Maria Gould

December 8, 2021

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. ROR is a collaborative effort with resourcing from multiple organizations. The ROR Technical Lead will work on the ROR project according to priorities agreed with the ROR Operations Team, and will be part of the DataCite development team, and report to DataCite’s Engineering Director.

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Adoption News

ORCID Integrates ROR

By Tom Demeranville, Paula Demain and Dan Dineen

October 22, 2021

The Research Organization Registry (ROR) has been added to the ORCID Registry as a disambiguated Organization ID. ROR can now be used with the ORCID API and Affiliation Manager to record research institution identifiers and metadata, thus making it easier to track the impact of institutional research.

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Team Updates

Now Hiring: Metadata Curation Lead

By Maria Gould

October 1, 2021

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. This is an exciting time to join the ROR team and support ROR’s emerging independent, community-based curation model.

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Technical News

New ROR Update and Final GRID Sync

By Maria Gould

September 29, 2021

In July, ROR and GRID announced that the two registries would begin to diverge in Q4 2021 following GRID’s final public release.

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Technical News

ROR Resources Roundup

By Liz Krznarich

July 27, 2021

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?!) to support those of you integrating ROR into your systems. We’re excited to share the following new resources with you:

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General Updates

ROR and GRID: The Way Forward

By ROR Leadership Team

July 12, 2021

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.

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Year in Review

ROR’s 2020 Annual Report: A ROR-port on the Past Year and a Look to What’s Next

By Maria Gould

March 23, 2021

ROR is releasing our first-ever Annual Report. Adopting the model of annual reports distributed by nonprofit organizations, this document aims to provide an overview of ROR’s progress in 2020 and a preview of work to come in 2021.

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Event Recaps

ROR-ing Around the Clock at PIDapalooza21

By Maria Gould

February 12, 2021

In the same week that ROR celebrated its third birthday, PIDapalooza celebrated the fifth festival of persistent identifiers, also as a virtual event. Across three tracks, seven languages, and twenty-hour hours, PIDapalooza21 highlighted the latest updates from the wide world of persistent identifiers, with a focus how open infrastructure and rich metadata are key to harnessing the power of PIDs. As a prime example of open identifier infrastructure that is designed to enrich scholarly metadata, ROR featured prominently in many PIDapalooza21 sessions. Here are some highlights, with links to the recordings:

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Event Recaps

Unmute to ROAR! ROR's Third Annual (and First Virtual) Community Meeting

By Maria Gould

February 3, 2021

ROR had a birthday last week and marked the occasion just like anyone else celebrating a birthday during the pandemic: with a virtual party! More than eighty attendees from around the world came together for the now third annual ROR community meeting, held this year on Zoom across two sessions to reach ROR’s global community in as many timezones as possible.

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