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.

In this case study we interview Tom Morrell, Research Data Specialist at Caltech Library and key contributor to the open source research data management system InvenioRDM, about Caltech’s early adoption of ROR IDs in their repository systems and why InvenioRDM is architected with ROR IDs for funders and author affiliations.

Four years ago, ROR was first introduced to the world at an open community meeting the day before PIDapalooza. Since then, we have continued to celebrate ROR’s anniversary every year with a big public event to bring together the broad network of ROR users and supporters and reinforce ROR’s commitment to developing open, sustainable, community-driven infrastructure.

In this installment of the ROR Case Studies series, we talk with Allyson Lister, Content and Community Lead for FAIRsharing, a cross-disciplinary registry of scientific standards, databases, and policies, about how and why FAIRsharing used ROR to help make organizations first-class citizens in their data model. Key quotations “If we’re going to integrate with somebody like ROR, we have to commit to it, you know.

ROR is excited to welcome two new members to its Steering Group this year: Joy Owango from the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) and Natasha Simons from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). About Joy Owango Joy Owango is Founding Director of the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), the first African-based training centre to teach effective communication skills to

2022 has been a momentous year for ROR! We experienced significant growth, reached critical milestones, and established a foundation for long-term sustainability. As the year comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to reflect on our activities and give thanks to our community for supporting us along the way.

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.

2022 was a big year for ROR in many ways, but it was especially notable from a tech standpoint. In early 2022, we built tools and processes that allowed ROR to begin curating the registry separately from GRID, which quickly opened possibilities for tackling projects that had been waiting on the back burner until ROR became fully independent.

This conversation with Eric Olson of the Center for Open Science is the first in a new series of interviews, “Case Studies in ROR Integration,” a series designed to provide in-depth detail on why and how people are choosing to integrate ROR IDs into their systems.

We are thrilled to announce that ROR has been selected by SCOSS as essential open infrastructure and will be highlighted in the latest SCOSS campaign, which kicked off this week. SCOSS - the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services - is an initiative that focuses on identifying non-commercial infrastructures that are key for open science and worthy of community investment.

Since its launch in 2019, ROR has been charting a unique path toward sustainability.