Community Calls

Community Calls

ROR Community Call December 2020

  • Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2020
  • Location: Online
  • Recorded: Yes
  • Description: The bi-monthly ROR Community Advisory Group meeting includes updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on ROR processes and policies, updates from ROR adopters, and more. In the December 2020 meeting, we welcome Liz Krznarich as Adoption Manager, announce the ROR community survey, and share recent blog posts and upcoming events. Development updates include reports on the continuing efforts to become independent from GRID. New ROR adopters include OJS (via a plugin), LC standards list, cOAlition S Journal Checker Tool, OA Switchboard, and DiSSCo. ORCID gives a report on its ongoing work to adopt ROR.

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ROR Community Call September 2020

  • Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2020
  • Location: Online
  • Recorded: Yes
  • Description: The bi-monthly ROR Community Advisory Group meeting includes updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on ROR processes and policies, updates from ROR adopters, and more. In the September 2020 meeting, we announce the new Adoption Manager role at ROR and give updates on other outreach activities as well as about efforts and messaging on sustainability planning. Development updates include reports on efforts to become independent from GRID via tech, schema, and curation workflows. Several ROR adopters share their work, including the Swiss National Foundation and the British Library.

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ROR Community Call July 2020

  • Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2020
  • Location: Online
  • Recorded: Yes
  • Description: The bi-monthly ROR Community Advisory Group meeting includes updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on ROR processes and policies, updates from ROR adopters, and more. In the July 2020 meeting we hear reports on the publisher adoption working group, the department working group, development and curation progress, and upcoming remote outreach activities, along with a demonstration from Rockefeller University Press on its ROR integration. Feedback is requested on guidelines for display of ROR IDs.

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ROR Community Call May 2020

  • Date: Thursday, May 21, 2020
  • Location: Online
  • Recorded: Yes
  • Description: The bi-monthly ROR Community Advisory Group meeting includes updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on ROR processes and policies, updates from ROR adopters, and more. In the May 2020 meeting, we hear reports on outreach efforts, including the first “Intro to ROR” webinar and the launch of a ROR YouTube channel. Development and curation updates include a new technical lead, improved metadata handling from GRID, and ongoing work on ORCID integration, with plans to streamline bulk submission of organizations to ROR. Community updates highlight efforts such as mapping ROR IDs at the US DOE and integrating ROR into OJS journals, with discussions about validating ROR IDs through additional metadata. Lastly, a publisher implementation group is forming, and timelines for Crossref and ORCID integrations are being set.

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ROR Community Call March 2020

  • Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2020
  • Location: Online
  • Recorded: Yes
  • Description: The bi-monthly ROR Community Advisory Group meeting includes updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on ROR processes and policies, updates from ROR adopters, and more. In he March 2020 meeting, we hear a report on the ROR meeting at PIDapalooza and future plans for webinars, blog posts, and support tailored to remote working due to COVID-19. Development updates include improvements in ROR’s search features, the integration of ROR into Crossref and ORCID, and ongoing work on metadata and department-level information. The curation team continues to refine workflows for ROR updates, and the ROR team continues to fundraise and consider other options to ensure ROR's sustainability.

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ROR Community Call November 2019

  • Date: Thursday, November 21, 2019
  • Location: Online
  • Recorded: Yes
  • Description: The bi-monthly ROR Community Advisory Group meeting includes updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on ROR processes and policies, updates from ROR adopters, and more. The November 2019 meeting includes updates on the status of ROR integration in GRID records, Dryad, DataCite, and Altum's Proposal Central. Additional topics include ROR's ongoing efforts to build an affiliation matching service, to sync updates from GRID, and to set up a Community Curation Board. ROR is also launching a fundraising campaign to keep the service available at no charge while continuing to improve the platform and meet community goals.

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ROR Community Call September 2019

  • Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2019
  • Location: Online
  • Recorded: Yes
  • Description: The bi-monthly ROR Community Advisory Group meeting includes updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on ROR processes and policies, updates from ROR adopters, and more. The September 2019 meeting includes updates on the progress of ROR in DataCite's metadata schema, in GRID records, and in Crossref's metadata schema. CHORUS, OSTI DOE, UC Davis, EMBL-EBI, and the British Library report on various ROR adoption and outreach efforts. Additional topics include the volume of requests for changes to ROR and the proposal for a ROR community curation board.

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ROR Community Call July 2019

  • Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2019
  • Location: Online
  • Recorded: Yes
  • Description: The bi-monthly ROR Community Advisory Group meeting includes updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on ROR processes and policies, updates from ROR adopters, and more. The July 2019 meeting includes updates on GRID synchronization, making ROR available as in a JSON data dump, and the forthcoming proposal on ROR in the Crossref metadata schema. Outreach activities include attending the next PIDapalooza in Lisbon and asking for signatures on the statement of support for ROR. ROR's three experimental working groups are set to start meeting in June: Outreach, Policy, and Implementation / Adoption.

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ROR Community Call May 2019

  • Date: Thursday, May 23, 2019
  • Location: Online
  • Recorded: Yes
  • Description: The bi-monthly ROR Community Advisory Group meeting includes updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on ROR processes and policies, updates from ROR adopters, and more. The May 2019 meeting includes updates on ROR product development, GRID import, ROR implementation in Dryad and in DataCite Fabrica, upcoming outreach activities, and working group coordination. Feedback is requested on a draft statement of support for ROR and a draft of ROR curation policies.

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ROR Community Call March 2019

  • Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019
  • Location: Online
  • Recorded: Yes
  • Description: In this inaugural call for the ROR Community Advisory Group, we give an update on the project, invite feedback on policy questions, and go over next steps for ROR.

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