Announcing a New Affiliation Matching Strategy in the ROR API
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new matching strategy in the ROR API to help you match complex affiliation text strings to ROR IDs at scale.
By Amanda French and Adam Buttrick
December 2, 2025
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new matching strategy in the ROR API to help you match complex affiliation text strings to ROR IDs at scale.
By Maria Gould
October 2, 2025
We are thrilled to introduce the newest member of the ROR pride: Joseph Rhoads joined the ROR team in September as our new Technical Lead.
By Amanda French
June 11, 2025
Version 2 of the ROR API will become the query default in July 2025, and version 1 of the ROR API and dataset will be deprecated entirely in December 2025.
By Adam Buttrick
January 27, 2025
OpenAlex has added a new metadata matching strategy co-developed by ROR and Crossref to its affiliation matching processes: ROR is also investigating the prospect of incorporating this new matching strategy into the ROR API in 2025.
By Liz Krznarich
August 29, 2024
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.
By ROR Core Team
April 15, 2024
Today, we are delighted to announce the launch of version 2 of the ROR schema and API! This new version of our schema and API will serve as a rock-solid foundation for everything ROR users want to accomplish now and in the future.
By Liz Krznarich and Amanda French
September 14, 2023
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.
By Amanda French and Liz Krznarich
December 14, 2022
We’ve run several calls for feedback in 2022, but here’s one you’ll definitely want to chime in on: our draft proposal of major changes to the ROR data model for schema version 2.
By Liz Krznarich
December 7, 2022
2022 was a big year for ROR in many ways, but it was especially notable from a tech standpoint. In early 2022, we built tools and processes that allowed ROR to begin curating the registry separately from GRID, which quickly opened possibilities for tackling projects that had been waiting on the back burner until ROR became fully independent.
By Liz Krznarich
July 27, 2021
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?