Year in Review
ROR's 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.
Case Studies
Case Study: Clear Skies, Research Integrity, Data Science, and ROR
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
Explainers
How ROR and the Open Funder Registry Overlap: A Closer Look at the Data
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. This post compares both registries and provides data showing that most of the Open Funder Registry records that see the most use already have equivalent records in ROR.
Requests
Help Us Test v2 of the ROR API!
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.
Case Studies
Case Study: OpenAlex, ROR, and Machine Learning Models
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 in OpenAlex both as an identifier for institutions and as a dataset for training machine learning models.
Team Updates
Now Hiring: Metadata Curation Support 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!
General Updates
Open Funder Registry to Transition to 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. ROR and Crossref are working closely together on this important initiative.
Case Studies
Case Study: Why ResearchEquals Integrated ROR and Live Streamed It
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.
General Updates
ROR as community-supported infrastructure
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!
Case Studies
Case Study: How Europe PMC Uses ROR
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.
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