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Explainers

Understanding RRID and ROR for Facilities

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.

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Case Studies

Case Study: Next-Generation Publishing Platform Curvenote and ROR

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.

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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.

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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.

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Requests

How Should ROR Handle API Client Identification?

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.

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Explainers

The Myth of Perfect Metadata Matching (cross-post)

The third blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk discusses a few common myths about metadata matching that are often encountered when interacting with users, developers, integrators, and other stakeholders.

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Case Studies

Case Study: How and Why Optica Publishing Group Uses ROR

Optica Publishing Group was one of the earliest publishers to send ROR IDs to Crossref in DOI metadata. In this interview, we speak with them to learn more about their rigorous processes for cleaning organization names.

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Use Cases

Using ROR for Funder Identification

Several widely used scholarly systems are using ROR IDs to identify and disambiguate funding organizations. In this post, we’ll give you a glimpse of how and why these systems use ROR IDs as funder identifiers.

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Adoption News

Re-introducing Participation Reports to Encourage Best Practices in Open Metadata (cross-post)

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.

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Adoption News

American Physical Society Becomes Largest Society Publisher to Adopt ROR (cross-post)

The American Physical Society (APS) has become the largest society publisher to adopt ROR, incorporating it into their manuscript submission process and sending ROR IDs in author affiliation metadata to Crossref.

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