Requests
How Should ROR Handle 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.
Explainers
The Myth of Perfect Metadata Matching
In this post, we discuss a few common myths about metadata matching that are often encountered when interacting with users, developers, integrators, and other stakeholders.
Case Studies
Case Study: How and Why Optica Publishing Group Uses ROR
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.
Use Cases
Using ROR for Funder Identification
Several widely used scholarly systems are using ROR IDs to identify and disambiguate funders. In this post, we’ll give you a glimpse of how and why these systems use ROR IDs for funder identifiers.
Adoption News
Re-introducing Participation Reports to Encourage Best Practices in Open Metadata
Crossref, with the help of CWTS Leiden, has just released an exciting update to their participation report, adding metrics for both affiliations in general and ROR IDs in particular. Now Crossref members can easily see how well they are doing in providing open affiliation metadata.
Adoption News
American Physical Society Becomes Largest Society Publisher to Adopt ROR
The American Physical Society (APS) has become the largest society publisher to adopt Research Organization Registry Identifiers. Institutional metadata in the Physical Review journals are now easier to find, track, and reference — a move that strengthens open science and research transparency.
Requests
ID Ideas: Adding New External Identifiers to ROR
We're looking for your feedback on a draft proposal for criteria to include additional external identifiers in ROR records. 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?
Explainers
The 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.
Team Updates
Change, Continuity, and New Positions on the ROR Team
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!
Explainers
Metadata Matching 101: What Is It and Why Do We Need It?
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.
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