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New ROR Update and Final GRID Sync

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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ROR Resources Roundup

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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Untangling Affiliation Strings with the ROR API

ROR launched in January 2019 with records for nearly 100,000 research organizations, all with unique IDs and associated metadata. ROR data is useful for a variety of reasons and for a variety of users, including both humans and machines. It is essential for ROR to have robust mechanisms for searching, retrieving, and filtering.

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ROR Development Update: Building and Growing an Open Registry of Organizations

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.

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Hear us ROR! Announcing our First Prototype and Next Steps

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!

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