The ABCs of ROR: Understanding and Using Open Identifiers for Affiliations

Research Organization Registry (ROR) IDs are a key component of open and interoperable research infrastructure and are already being integrated in many systems to collect and disambiguate affiliation data. However, as ROR is relatively new, many current and potential stakeholders could still benefit from learning the basics about what ROR is trying to do and how ROR IDs can be used. This PIDs 101 session on ROR will provide audience members with clear and helpful guidance on what a ROR ID is (and what it is not), how to look up organizations in ROR, how to run basic API queries in ROR, how to make suggestions for changes to ROR, how to implement ROR in research systems, and how ROR relates to other identifiers like DOIs and ORCID.