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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Requests
ID Ideas: Adding New External Identifiers to ROR
We’re looking for your feedback on a draft proposal for criteria to include additional external identifiers in ROR records, and comments are open through August 16th.
Explainers
The Anatomy of Metadata Matching (cross-post)
The second blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk describes some basic matching-related terminology and the components of a matching process, then poses some typical product questions to consider when developing or integrating matching solutions.
Team Updates
Change, Continuity, and New Positions on the ROR Team
ROR is fortunate to have a small but mighty team that strives every day to make ROR as good as it can be and to support the diverse needs of our global community.
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