Research Organization Registry (ROR)

Upcoming events

PKP Sprint and Pre-Conference Library Publishing Forum 2024

Date: May 13-16, 2024
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Description: ROR will be participating in the Library Publishing Forum sprint and pre-conference. At the sprint on May 13th, we’ll be participating in PKP’s full-day software sprint, where small, self-organized teams work together in an unconference-style event to solve common software issues or to make enhancements that benefit everyone. You don’t need to have coding or programming expertise to participate. At the pre-conference on May 14th, ROR will be participating in a panel on “Interdependence, Collaboration, Interoperability: PKP’s Role in the Open Ecosystem” where we’ll discuss ROR and PKP collaboration.

CHORUS Forum: Navigating the Future of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) in Scholarly Publishing: Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities

Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Time: 3pm UTC
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Online
Description: CHORUS is organizing a forum event on the future of PIDs in scholarly publishing. Further details available soon at https://www.chorusaccess.org/events/.

ROR Community Call May 2024

Date: Thursday, May 23, 2024
Time: 3pm UTC
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Online
Recorded: Yes
Description: The bi-monthly ROR Community calls include updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on proposals for changes to ROR policies and procedures, demonstrations and presentations by ROR users, and more.

Society for Scholarly Publishing 2024

Date: May 29-31, 2024
Location: Boston, MA
Description: ROR Technical Community Manager Amanda French will be at SSP 2024! If you’ll be there too, we’d love to answer any questions you have about ROR and hear about your current or planned ROR integration. Book a time to meet up at the Crossref booth in the exhibit hall.

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PIDFest 2024

Date: June 11-13, 2024
Location: Prague, CZ
Description: ROR will be attending PIDFest, and we hope you will be, too! Come hear our panel “Curation Conundrums and Community: Setting Metadata Policies at ROR,” in which we’ll explain our novel community-based curation model, discuss the tricky issues and decisions that ROR has encountered over the years, and share plans for future directions, inviting input and participation from the audience.

ROR Community Call July 2024

Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Time: 3pm UTC
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Online
Recorded: Yes
Description: The bi-monthly ROR Community calls include updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on proposals for changes to ROR policies and procedures, demonstrations and presentations by ROR users, and more.

FSCI Virtual Course - An Introduction to Querying the APIs of Open Metadata Services

Date: Tuesday July 23 - Thursday July 26
Time: 4pm UTC
Duration: 1 hour each for 3 sessions
Location: Online
Description: This FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute (FSCI) virtual course, co-taught by Technical Community Managers from Crossref, DataCite, and ROR, will introduce participants to the basics of querying the APIs of open metadata services. The course will be suitable for beginners who are not familiar with API queries and want to learn more about “how the sausage is made” in browser-based tools such as OpenAlex, CHORUS, The Lens, Dimensions, and Web of Science. Read more on the FSCI course list.

ROR Community Call September 2024

Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Time: 3pm UTC
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Online
Recorded: Yes
Description: The bi-monthly ROR Community calls include updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on proposals for changes to ROR policies and procedures, demonstrations and presentations by ROR users, and more.

ROR Community Call November 2024

Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Time: 4pm UTC
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Online
Recorded: Yes
Description: The bi-monthly ROR Community calls include updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on proposals for changes to ROR policies and procedures, demonstrations and presentations by ROR users, and more.

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Past events

ROR Community Call March 2024

The bi-monthly ROR Community calls include updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on proposals for changes to ROR policies and procedures, demonstrations and presentations by ROR users, and more. The ROR Community Call for March 2024 includes an update on v2 of the ROR API and schema, a summary of a special project to improve our coverage of Chinese organizations, new and notable ROR adoptions, and an update on Crossref’s work on the transition from the Open Funder Registry to ROR.

Why We All Need Good Funding Metadata

At the ROR annual meeting in January 2024, the session Why We All Need Good Funding Metadata addressed the issue that funding information is an increasingly important piece of metadata for many stakeholders, yet standardizing and using identifiers for funders remains a challenge. With ROR set to become the standard persistent identifier for funders, we convened a panel for ROR’s annual community meeting to hear from diverse perspectives about how funding metadata is used and what might make it better. We heard from funders, publishers, metadata specialists, and more, including CHORUS, the publishing unit of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Dryad, Crossref, and from Stratos for Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s, and afterward joined a discussion about funding metadata challenges and opportunities.

ROR Community Showcase

At the ROR annual meeting in January 2024, the Community Showcase featured presentations on how ROR is used in some key global scholarly systems and workflows, including at OpenAlex, 4Science / DSpace-CRIS, ORCID, Springer Nature, US Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), and the ROR Implementation Task Group of the NIH’s Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI).

ROR Annual Community Meeting and Fifth Anniversary Celebration

The 2024 version of the ROR annual meeting was a special one! We held a ROR Annual Community Meeting and Fifth Anniversary Celebration in January 2024 to celebrate ROR turning 5 years old, taking the opportunity to reflect on the last five years, remembering where we started and how we got here. We hear about where we’ve been and where we’re going in terms of our community of adopters, our curation activities, and our tech. Most importantly, we also acknowledge ROR community contributors, without whom we’d never have come this far, and we do some brainstorming about what’s next. In conclusion: let’s ROR some more in 2024!

US Federal Guidance and PIDs

In the US Federal Guidance and PIDs webinar on December 7, 2023, panelists from ROR, ORCID, Crossref, DataCite and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information discuss guidance memos issued by the U.S. Federal Government that encourage the use of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs). Memos include the 2021 NSPM-33 memo and the 2022 OSTP Public Access memo. Panelists include DOE OSTI’s Dr. Carly Robinson, ORCID’s Shawna Sadler, ROR’s Amanda French, Crossref’s Isaac Farley, and DataCite’s Xiaoli Chen.

ROR Community Call November 2023

In the ROR Community Call for November 2023, we hear updates about ROR Curation, Tech, and Adoption, including stats on the number of recent curation requests (a lot!), the beta release of version 2 of the ROR schema and API, and new and notable ROR adoptions, plus interesting stats on ROR and affiliations in ORCID. We also hear from three featured integrators: Tom Morrell of Caltech on his university’s ROR-enabled repositories, Nick Veenstra of University of Groningen on mapping messy organization data from the CRIS system to ROR, and Nina Tscheke of ScienceOpen on their platform’s use of ROR.

ROR Community Call September 2023

In the ROR Community Call for September 2023, we hear about version 2 of the ROR API and schema and how you can help us beta test. We also hear from Rachael Lammey, Director of Product at Crossref, on the Open Funder Registry deprecation in favor of ROR. Featured ROR integration presentations include a talk by Andy Dobson on ROR in DataSalon’s MasterVision and PaperStack and a talk by Joe Mcarthur on ROR in OA.Report.

ROR Community Call July 2023

Featured ROR integrators in the ROR Community Call for July 2023 include the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) and the Public Knowledge Project / Open Journal Systems (OJS). We hear about new funders for ROR, ROR curation activities, progress on version 2.0 of the ROR metadata schema and API, and progress on ROR adoption.

ROR Community Call May 2023

In the ROR Community Call for May 2023, we hear updates on ROR curation and tech, a list of events that ROR will be attending in the summer of 2023, and hear two reports from ROR integrators Scholastica and EuropePMC.

ROR Community Call March 2023

In the ROR Community Call for March 2023, we hear about proposed schema updates, stats from 1 year of independent curation, upcoming events and new ROR adoptions, and a presentation from ROR integrator FAIRsharing.

ROR Schema Changes Call

In the ROR Schema Changes Call on March 16, 2023, Technical Lead Liz Krznarich presents a summary of community responses to the request for feedback on proposed changes to the ROR schema and goes over planned changes in detail.

ROR Annual Community Meeting 2023

Four years and four sessions at the ROR Annual Community Meeting 2023 took place from January 31 to February 1 2023! We heard updates on what ROR accomplished in 2022, conducted an introductory tutorial to the ROR API, and explored how to use ROR to match affiliation strings in a technical session featuring lightning talks and demos by OpenAlex, DOE/OSTI, Allen AI, and Crossref. We also held an unrecorded drop-in session for informal conversations with the ROR Community.

More past events

Browse the list below to see more events ROR has participated in, with links to slides and recordings where available.

Events