Team Updates

Welcome Amanda French, Technical Community Manager

We are thrilled to introduce a new member of the ROR pride: Amanda French has joined ROR as our full-time Technical Community Manager.

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General Updates

ROR Welcomes Three New Steering Group Members

ROR is excited to welcome three new Steering Group members: Lautaro Matas, Kathleen Shearer, and Chris Shillum. Inaugurated in late 2019, the ROR Steering Group is an advisory body that supports the registry’s strategic planning and decision-making activities.

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Technical News

ROR-ing On Our Own: Announcing Our First Independent Registry Update

The ROR registry has grown! We are excited to announce a new ROR registry release. With this update, the registry has grown to 102,559 records.

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General Updates

Let's Fund Open Infrastructure Together

ROR begins a new round of community fundraising Since ROR launched in 2019, we have been charting a path to sustainability that leverages our broad community network and diversifies our funding sources.

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Team Updates

ROR Is Hiring a Technical Community Manager

ROR is hiring! We are looking for a full-time Technical Community Manager to expand the adoption and integration of ROR throughout the global scholarly communications ecosystem.

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General Updates

ROR and GRID: The Way Forward

Earlier today, GRID announced that it will discontinue its schedule of public releases in Q4 2021. This decision marks an important and exciting milestone in the evolution of both organization registries.

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Year in Review

ROR’s 2020 Annual Report: A ROR-port on the Past Year and a Look to What’s Next

ROR is releasing our first-ever Annual Report. Adopting the model of annual reports distributed by nonprofit organizations, this document aims to provide an overview of ROR’s progress in 2020 and a preview of work to come in 2021.

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Event Recaps

ROR-ing Around the Clock at PIDapalooza21

In the same week that ROR celebrated its third birthday, PIDapalooza celebrated the fifth festival of persistent identifiers, also as a virtual event.

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Event Recaps

Unmute to ROAR! ROR's Third Annual (and First Virtual) Community Meeting

ROR had a birthday last week and marked the occasion just like anyone else celebrating a birthday during the pandemic: with a virtual party!

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General Updates

Aligning ROR with the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure

The scholarly community depends on a network of open identifier and metadata infrastructure. Content identifiers and contributor identifiers are foundational components of this network.

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