ROR Community Showcase January 2024
- Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2024
- Time: 3pm UTC
- Duration: 1 hour
- Location: Online
- Recorded: Yes
- Description: At the ROR annual meeting in January 2024, the Community Showcase featured presentations on how ROR is used in some key global scholarly systems and workflows, including at OpenAlex, 4Science / DSpace-CRIS, ORCID, Springer Nature, US Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), and the ROR Implementation Task Group of the NIH’s Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI).
Presenters
Kyle Demes, VP of Research Intelligence at OurResearch, shows how ROR enables powerful and free research intelligence in OpenAlex.
Andrea Bollini, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at 4Science, demonstrates a brand-new ROR integration for author affiliations and funding references in DSpace-CRIS.
Paloma Marín-Arraiza, Engagement Manager at ORCID, shows statistics on the increasing use of ROR in ORCID records, explains how the ORCID Affiliation Manager and the API use ROR to allow institutions to verify researcher affiliations, and gives an update on future ROR-powered ORCID features.
Daria Piccinelli, Process and Content Management Project Coordinator at Springer Nature, tells us how her team developed a method to match author affiliation text strings to ROR IDs using the ROR API in Springer Nature’s production workflow and talks about what’s next for ROR at Springer Nature.
Savanna Sims, Information Science Specialist at Edgewater Federal Solutions / U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), talks about a large-scale curation effort undertaken in collaboration with ROR to add and modify ROR records for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Eric Olson, Product Manager at the Center for Open Science, and Luca Belletti, Senior Product Manager at Elsevier, outline the purpose, focus, and accomplishments of the ROR Implementation Task Group of the NIH’s Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI).