The Research Organization Registry (ROR) has been added to the ORCID Registry as a disambiguated Organization ID. ROR can now be used with the ORCID API and Affiliation Manager to record research institution identifiers and metadata, thus making it easier to track the impact of institutional research.
Version 4.3 of the DataCite Metadata Schema released during August, 2019 included (among other things), the capability to provide persistent identifiers for affiliated organizations in the metadata (Dasler and deSmaele, Identify your affiliation with Metadata Schema 4.
An update on the progress of the Org ID initiative led by California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID.