Using ROR IDs in Place of Funder IDs
Crossref members can now use ROR IDs to identify funders in any place where they currently use Funder IDs in their metadata.
By Patricia Feeney
March 5, 2025
Crossref members can now use ROR IDs to identify funders in any place where they currently use Funder IDs in their metadata.
By Dominika Tkaczyk and Adam Buttrick
January 9, 2025
The fifth and final blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk outlines a set of pragmatic criteria for making decisions about metadata matching.
By Anita Bandrowski and Amanda French
November 26, 2024
This blog post explores the difference between 'core facilities' in RRID and 'facilities' in ROR and provides guidance for those who run facilities on how to effectively use these identifiers.
By Dominika Tkaczyk and Adam Buttrick
November 6, 2024
The fourth blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk explains how to measure the quality of different matching strategies with an evaluation dataset and metrics.
By Dominika Tkaczyk and Adam Buttrick
August 28, 2024
In this post, we discuss a few common myths about metadata matching that are often encountered when interacting with users, developers, integrators, and other stakeholders.
By Lena Stoll
July 25, 2024
Crossref, with the help of CWTS Leiden, has just released an exciting update to their participation report, adding metrics for both affiliations in general and ROR IDs in particular. Now Crossref members can easily see how well they are doing in providing open affiliation metadata.
By American Physical Society
July 23, 2024
The American Physical Society (APS) has become the largest society publisher to adopt Research Organization Registry Identifiers. Institutional metadata in the Physical Review journals are now easier to find, track, and reference — a move that strengthens open science and research transparency.
By Dominika Tkaczyk and Adam Buttrick
June 27, 2024
The second blog post about metadata matching by ROR's Adam Buttrick and Crossref's Dominika Tkaczyk describes some basic matching-related terminology and the components of a matching process, then poses some typical product questions to consider when developing or integrating matching solutions.
By Dominika Tkaczyk and Adam Buttrick
May 16, 2024
In this blog, the first one in a series about metadata matching, we will cover the very basics of matching: what it is, how we do it, and why we devote so much effort to this problem.
By Amanda French, Ginny Hendricks, Rachael Lammey, Fabienne Michaud and Maria Gould
September 7, 2023
Crossref has announced a long-term plan to deprecate the Open Funder Registry and merge it with ROR in order to make workflows more efficient for all concerned. ROR and Crossref are working closely together on this important initiative.