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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explainers
Metadata Matching 101: What Is It and Why Do We Need It? (cross-post)
ROR Curation Lead Adam Buttrick has been working with Crossref Head of Strategic Initiatives Dominika Tkaczyk to explore improvements in automatic metadata matching strategies that can result in better metadata for everyone.
General Updates
Open Funder Registry to Transition to ROR (cross-post)
Crossref has announced a long-term plan to deprecate the Open Funder Registry and merge it with ROR in order to make workflows more efficient for all concerned.
Adoption News
ORCID Integrates ROR
This is a guest post by the ORCID team that was originally published on the ORCID blog. See the original post here.
Explainers
Early Adopters of Organization Identifiers in DataCite
Version 4.3 of the DataCite Metadata Schema released during August, 2019 included (among other things), the capability to provide persistent identifiers for affiliated organizations in the metadata (Dasler and deSmaele, Identify your affiliation with Metadata Schema 4.
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