Research Organization Registry (ROR)

Upcoming events

ROR Annual Community Meeting 2025: Community Update

Date: February 4, 2025
Time: 3pm UTC
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Online
Recorded: Yes
Description: In our annual Community Update, we’ll reflect on what ROR accomplished in 2024 and what’s ahead for ROR in 2025. Most importantly, we’ll also be acknowledging ROR community contributors, without whom we’d never have come this far. If you only attend one ROR meeting this year, make it this one.

ROR Annual Community Meeting 2025: Community Drop-in

Date: February 4, 2025
Time: 4pm UTC
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Online
Recorded: No
Description: The ROR team will stay online for an hour after the Community Update session for an unrecorded and informal chat with registered participants. Ask us anything, or just socialize!

ROR Annual Community Meeting 2025: National PID Policies and Practices

Date: February 5, 2025
Time: 4pm UTC
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Online
Recorded: Yes
Description: Governments are increasingly realizing the need for clean and consistent metadata for scholarly publications so that their nation’s research can be better tracked and analyzed. In this session, we’ll hear about efforts in several different countries to make persistent identifiers such as ROR a key part of national research strategy.

ROR Annual Community Meeting 2025: Successes and Opportunities for ROR in the Asia-Pacific Region

Date: February 6, 2025
Time: 1am UTC
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Online
Recorded: Yes
Description: In this Asia-Pacific-focused session, we’ll give a brief introduction to ROR, hear presentations by speakers from Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia who will share their current or planned implementations of ROR, and answer questions from participants. If you’re located in Asia, Australia, or New Zealand and are interested in ROR, then this session is for you.

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Past events

Advancing Open Science: The Barcelona Declaration and Open Metadata

At the Advancing Open Science event held in Vilnius, participants discuss the most important developments in open science and research information in Europe and Lithuania. The keynote speaker, Prof. Ludo Waltman (Leiden University, The Netherlands), presents the Barcelona Declaration, a document highlighting the importance of open access to research information. Recent Lithuanian open access policy priorities and their impact on the national research ecosystem are presented, and representatives from the university alliances Arqus, Transform4Europe and ERUA share their experiences and practical solutions in promoting open science. Discussions also explore how to make the process of sharing scientific information more efficient, including tools such as the Research Organization Registry (ROR).

ROR Community Call November 2024

In the ROR Community Call for November 2024, we hear updates from the ROR team on domains and link checking in ROR, projects to increase regional coverage of Japanese and Portuguese organizations, implementation of schema v2.1, deprecation of schema and API v1, and the deployment of client identification on the ROR API. We also see demos of two featured ROR integrations: the MESR / OpenAlex Works Magnet that enables the community to submit organization corrections to OpenAlex, and the Global Change Information System (GCIS) of the USGCRP.

Open Affiliation Metadata: How Recent Innovations Help Libraries and Librarians

The ACRL Choice / LibTech Insights webinar Open Affiliation Metadata: How Recent Innovations Help Libraries and Librarians includes speakers from both ROR and OpenAlex. Analyzing an institution’s research outputs helps research libraries align their collections strategies with community needs, estimate their previous and future spends on article processing charges (APCs), understand the impact of transformative agreements, and much more. Yet this analysis has remained difficult because researcher institution affiliation metadata is often captured in publications as unstandardized plain text, while both affiliation identifiers and databases that link publications to institutions have often been proprietary. In this webinar, we will go over recent innovations in open research metadata that are disrupting this model and explain what librarians can do both to get the data they need and to improve their own institution’s data in downstream research intelligence tools.

New Features for Organization Information in DSpace with ROR

In New Features for Organization Information in DSpace with ROR, a webinar co-hosted with 4Science, we hear about how and why 4Science incorporated ROR, the Research Organization Registry, into both DSpace-CRIS and DSpace 8 in order to improve the quality of organization metadata in both systems.

ROR Community Call September 2024

The ROR Community Call for September 2024 includes general updates about events, honors, and recent blog posts; an introduction to our new Metadata Manager Riley Marsh; a description of our request for feedback on identifying clients of the ROR API, and reports on our call for feedback on adding new external identifiers to ROR records. Guest presenters include representatives of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, who explain how ROR helps them track their nation’s research output, and the Director of Content for Web of Science from ‪Clarivate‬, who gives us a preview of the ROR features in Web of Science coming in October 2024.

ROR Community Call July 2024

The bi-monthly ROR Community calls include updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on proposals for changes to ROR policies and procedures, demonstrations and presentations by ROR users, and more. In the ROR Community Call for July 2024, we hear initial thoughts on adding credentialing to the ROR API, request feedback on a proposal to add additional external identifiers to ROR records, learn about new ROR adoptions, notably DSpace 8, and see presentations from featured integrators the American Physical Society (APS) and Curvenote.

ROR Community Call May 2024

The bi-monthly ROR Community calls include updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on proposals for changes to ROR policies and procedures, demonstrations and presentations by ROR users, and more. The ROR Community Call for May 2024 includes general updates, an update on the April launch of the v2 ROR API and schema, and an overview of publisher identifiers in DataCite’s new metadata schema 4.5.

ROR Community Call March 2024

The bi-monthly ROR Community calls include updates from the ROR team, opportunities for feedback on proposals for changes to ROR policies and procedures, demonstrations and presentations by ROR users, and more. The ROR Community Call for March 2024 includes an update on v2 of the ROR API and schema, a summary of a special project to improve our coverage of Chinese organizations, new and notable ROR adoptions, and an update on Crossref’s work on the transition from the Open Funder Registry to ROR.

Why We All Need Good Funding Metadata

At the ROR annual meeting in January 2024, the session Why We All Need Good Funding Metadata addressed the issue that funding information is an increasingly important piece of metadata for many stakeholders, yet standardizing and using identifiers for funders remains a challenge. With ROR set to become the standard persistent identifier for funders, we convened a panel for ROR’s annual community meeting to hear from diverse perspectives about how funding metadata is used and what might make it better. We heard from funders, publishers, metadata specialists, and more, including CHORUS, the publishing unit of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Dryad, Crossref, and from Stratos for Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s, and afterward joined a discussion about funding metadata challenges and opportunities.

ROR Community Showcase

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).

ROR Annual Community Meeting and Fifth Anniversary Celebration

The 2024 version of the ROR annual meeting was a special one! We held a ROR Annual Community Meeting and Fifth Anniversary Celebration in January 2024 to celebrate ROR turning 5 years old, taking the opportunity to reflect on the last five years, remembering where we started and how we got here. We hear about where we’ve been and where we’re going in terms of our community of adopters, our curation activities, and our tech. Most importantly, we also acknowledge ROR community contributors, without whom we’d never have come this far, and we do some brainstorming about what’s next. In conclusion: let’s ROR some more in 2024!

US Federal Guidance and PIDs

In the US Federal Guidance and PIDs webinar on December 7, 2023, panelists from ROR, ORCID, Crossref, DataCite and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information discuss guidance memos issued by the U.S. Federal Government that encourage the use of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs). Memos include the 2021 NSPM-33 memo and the 2022 OSTP Public Access memo. Panelists include DOE OSTI’s Dr. Carly Robinson, ORCID’s Shawna Sadler, ROR’s Amanda French, Crossref’s Isaac Farley, and DataCite’s Xiaoli Chen.

ROR Community Call November 2023

In the ROR Community Call for November 2023, we hear updates about ROR Curation, Tech, and Adoption, including stats on the number of recent curation requests (a lot!), the beta release of version 2 of the ROR schema and API, and new and notable ROR adoptions, plus interesting stats on ROR and affiliations in ORCID. We also hear from three featured integrators: Tom Morrell of Caltech on his university’s ROR-enabled repositories, Nick Veenstra of University of Groningen on mapping messy organization data from the CRIS system to ROR, and Nina Tscheke of ScienceOpen on their platform’s use of ROR.

ROR Community Call September 2023

In the ROR Community Call for September 2023, we hear about version 2 of the ROR API and schema and how you can help us beta test. We also hear from Rachael Lammey, Director of Product at Crossref, on the Open Funder Registry deprecation in favor of ROR. Featured ROR integration presentations include a talk by Andy Dobson on ROR in DataSalon’s MasterVision and PaperStack and a talk by Joe Mcarthur on ROR in OA.Report.

ROR Community Call July 2023

Featured ROR integrators in the ROR Community Call for July 2023 include the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) and the Public Knowledge Project / Open Journal Systems (OJS). We hear about new funders for ROR, ROR curation activities, progress on version 2.0 of the ROR metadata schema and API, and progress on ROR adoption.

ROR Community Call May 2023

In the ROR Community Call for May 2023, we hear updates on ROR curation and tech, a list of events that ROR will be attending in the summer of 2023, and hear two reports from ROR integrators Scholastica and EuropePMC.

ROR Community Call March 2023

In the ROR Community Call for March 2023, we hear about proposed schema updates, stats from 1 year of independent curation, upcoming events and new ROR adoptions, and a presentation from ROR integrator FAIRsharing.

ROR Schema Changes Call

In the ROR Schema Changes Call on March 16, 2023, Technical Lead Liz Krznarich presents a summary of community responses to the request for feedback on proposed changes to the ROR schema and goes over planned changes in detail.

ROR Annual Community Meeting 2023

Four years and four sessions at the ROR Annual Community Meeting 2023 took place from January 31 to February 1 2023! We heard updates on what ROR accomplished in 2022, conducted an introductory tutorial to the ROR API, and explored how to use ROR to match affiliation strings in a technical session featuring lightning talks and demos by OpenAlex, DOE/OSTI, Allen AI, and Crossref. We also held an unrecorded drop-in session for informal conversations with the ROR Community.

More past events

Browse the list below to see more events ROR has participated in, with links to slides and recordings where available.

Events