Technical News
Timeline for the Sunset of Version 1 of the ROR API and Schema
Version 2 of the ROR API will become the query default in July 2025, and version 1 of the ROR API and dataset will be deprecated entirely in December 2025.
Adoption News
Faster Affiliation Matching at Scale
OpenAlex has added a new metadata matching strategy co-developed by ROR and Crossref to its affiliation matching processes: ROR is also investigating the prospect of incorporating this new matching strategy into the ROR API in 2025.
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.
Technical News
Announcing Version 2 of the ROR Schema and API!
Today, we are delighted to announce the launch of version 2 of the ROR schema and API! This new version of our schema and API will serve as a rock-solid foundation for everything ROR users want to accomplish now and in the future.
Requests
Help Us Test v2 of the ROR API!
After nearly a year of planning and community input, we are thrilled to release a beta version of ROR's first major schema and API update, which is open to the public for testing through October 16, 2023.
Requests
Schema Scheming: Evolving the ROR Data Model
We’ve run several calls for feedback in 2022, but here’s one you’ll definitely want to chime in on: our draft proposal of major changes to the ROR data model for schema version 2.
Technical News
Handling Organization Status Changes in ROR
2022 was a big year for ROR in many ways, but it was especially notable from a tech standpoint. In early 2022, we built tools and processes that allowed ROR to begin curating the registry separately from GRID, which quickly opened possibilities for tackling projects that had been waiting on the back burner until ROR became fully independent.
Technical News
ROR Resources Roundup
ROR adoption is ramping up, and we’ve been hard at work during the past few months creating resources (or should we say ROR-sources?
Explainers
Untangling Affiliation Strings with the ROR API
ROR launched in January 2019 with records for nearly 100,000 research organizations, all with unique IDs and associated metadata. ROR data is useful for a variety of reasons and for a variety of users, including both humans and machines.
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