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Meet the ROR Steering Group

By Maria Gould

November 22, 2019

ROR is thrilled to announce that we are welcoming new members to the ROR Steering Group. The group now consists of the following members: Matt Buys, DataCite John Chodacki, California Digital Library Daniel Hook, Digital Science Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information Ritsuko Nakajima, Japan Science and Technology Agency Ed Pentz, Crossref Judy Ruttenberg, Association of Research Libraries Ina Smith, Academy of Science of South Africa Approximately one year ago, a ROR project team formed as the outcome of the prior OrgID initiative to initiate a startup effort to develop the first iteration of the ROR registry.

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Pride in Community: ROR Fundraising Update

By Maria Gould

November 13, 2019

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. In our fourth full week of the campaign, we are excited to announce that we have so far raised $13,500 in contributions from six different supporting organizations.

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Help Build Open Infrastructure for Organization Identifiers: A Call to Support and Sustain ROR

By Maria Gould

October 16, 2019

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. ROR emerged to fill a crucial gap in the scholarly communication landscape: while we already had an open network of identifiers for research outputs (DOIs for publications and data) and research contributors (ORCID IDs), open infrastructure for research organizations was a missing piece. ROR is a robust and stable registry of identifiers for close to 100K organizations (and counting!

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ROR-ing Together: Implementing Organization IDs in Dryad

By Maria Gould and Daniella Lowenberg

July 10, 2019

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! A better answer could be, coming soon - stay tuned! And a more complete and detailed answer might go something like this: It’s not easy to determine how many datasets in Dryad are affiliated with the University of California - or any other institution, for that matter.

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ROR development update: Building and growing an open registry of organizations

By Maria Gould

July 2, 2019

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. When the ROR MVR (minimum viable registry) launched in January, the registry included records for 91,000+ organizations, each with a unique ROR ID. Since getting the MVR up and running, ROR development updates have been focused on enhancing the technical implementation of the registry.

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A ROR-ing recap from PIDapalooza

By Maria Gould

February 12, 2019

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. Members of the ROR project team led an interactive session that included an affiliation-matching game to demonstrate the messiness of identifying and aligning metadata about an institution, and discuss how ROR IDs can address these challenges. The session culminated with participants looking up the ROR IDs for their own institutions and drawing them on their very own lion masks, reflecting the twin themes of uniqueness and community that are so central to ROR’s aims.

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Hear us ROR! Announcing our first prototype and next steps

By Maria Gould

February 10, 2019

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! Last month was a big and busy one for the ROR project team: we released a working API and search interface for the registry, we held our first ROR community meeting, and we showcased the initial prototypes at PIDapalooza in Dublin. We’re energized by the positive reception and response we’ve received and we wanted to take a moment to share information with the community.

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The ROR of the crowd: get involved!

By California Digital Library, DataCite, Crossref, and Digital Science

December 2, 2018

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. After several months of discussion following the January stakeholder meeting in Girona, Spain, there was still no easy answer to the governance question. It’s especially tough when getting down to details like timelines, hosting, staffing, and of course, funding.

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Org ID: a recap and a hint of things to come

By John Chodacki

August 2, 2018

_Cross-posted on the blogs of University of California (UC3), ORCID, and DataCite: https://doi.org/10.5438/67sj-4y05_. 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. The goal of our initiative has been to offer a transparent, accessible process that builds a better system for all of our communities.

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