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Research Organization Registry (ROR)

Research Organization Registry (ROR)
The Research Organization Registry (ROR) is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations.
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Case StudiesInformatikEnglisch
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In this dual case study, we learn why the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) relies on OA.Report and why OA.Report relies on ROR to help HHMI track compliance with its open access policy. “Even back then [in 2019], the best option was to lean on a big, community-owned solution. And it’s been great to see ROR effectively become the standard, the clear way forward for identifying organizations.” “We think ROR is terrific.

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OpenAlex has added a new metadata matching strategy co-developed by ROR and Crossref to its affiliation matching processes: ROR is also investigating the prospect of incorporating this new matching strategy into the ROR API in 2025. If you’ve been reading our recent series of blog posts about metadata matching, you know that automatic metadata matching at scale is a topic dear to our hearts.

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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. Read all posts in the series on metadata matching. In our previous entry in this series, we explained that thorough evaluation is key to understanding a matching strategy’s performance.

Year In ReviewInformatikEnglisch
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In 2024, ROR processed over 8000 curation requests, handled 14 million monthly requests to the ROR API, saw the number of downloads of the ROR dataset triple, and was a finalist for the ALPSP Innovation in Publishing Award: read on for more highlights from a banner year.

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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. What is RRID and what is its scope? RRIDs (Research Resource Identifiers) help identify a wide variety of resources which are inputs to experiments , especially biomedical experiments.

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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. Read all posts in the series on metadata matching. In our previous blog post in this series, we explained why no metadata matching strategy can return perfect results.

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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. As Metadata Manager, Riley will support the day-to-day activities of curating the ROR registry, including triaging incoming requests and processing changes for new registry releases.