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.
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.
Web of Science Core Collection™ from Clarivate™ now includes Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifiers for the benefit of the global research community.
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.
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.
In this interview with Curvenote cofounder Rowan Cockett, we envision a world in which an authoring and publication platform helps scientists collaborate earlier, publish faster, and easily use structured metadata to create fully connected and highly interactive publications and portfolios.
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.
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.
We're looking for your feedback on a draft proposal for managing ROR API client identification with 'mailto' parameters or API keys, and comments are open through October 4th, 2024.
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.