Explainers
Metadata Matching: Beyond Correctness
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.
Explainers
How Good Is Your Matching?
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.
Team Updates
Welcome Riley Marsh, Metadata Manager
We are thrilled to introduce a new member of the ROR pride: Riley Marsh joined the ROR team in August as our new Metadata Manager.
Explainers
The Myth of Perfect Metadata Matching
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.
Adoption News
Re-introducing Participation Reports to Encourage Best Practices in Open Metadata
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.
Explainers
How ROR and the Open Funder Registry Overlap: A Closer Look at the Data
ROR is ready to take on the important work that the Open Funder Registry has been doing: identifying research funders in a clean, consistent, comprehensive, and interoperable way. This post compares both registries and provides data showing that most of the Open Funder Registry records that see the most use already have equivalent records in ROR.
Requests
Help Us Test v2 of the ROR API!
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.
General Updates
Open Funder Registry to Transition to ROR
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.
Explainers
Parents, Children, and Other Relationships in ROR Records
ROR supports parent-child organizational hierarchies as well as other types of relationships between organizations. This blog post explains how organizational hierarchies and relationships are expressed in ROR metadata, offers statistics on hierarchies and relationships in ROR, summarizes ROR's curation practices for hierarchies and relationships, and gives examples of real-life use cases of ROR hierarchies and relationships.
Requests
Schema Scheming: Evolving the ROR Data Model
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.
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