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.
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.
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.
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 2.0. Comments are open until February 5, 2023, and we hope to release version 2.0 of the ROR schema and API in late 2023. When ROR diverged from GRID in March of 2022, it became possible for the first time to make changes to ROR’s data model. Our first priority was to handle inactive organizations and other organization status changes, and the community solution, as it turned out, didn’t involve any changes to the schema. We did the technical work to implement these organization status changes, and they were moved into production on December 1st, 2022. At the same time, knowing that both ROR’s data model and its API will need to change in the future, we asked for feedback on a proposal to handle schema and API versioning, and the ROR community agreed on a set of practices meant to make schema and API changes as painless as possible for ROR users.
In this post, we highlight ROR integration work focused on scholarly publishing, an area that depends heavily on the identification of institutional affiliations, and we welcome Liz Krznarich as ROR's new Adoption Manager.
Some of the most frequent questions ROR receives are about what it means when an organization is in ROR, and how organizations end up in the registry in the first place. Many of you are understandably curious about how ROR records are added and updated. So, we thought this would be a good time to talk about how the registry is being maintained and how this process evolving.