ROR - Research Organization Registry

The scholarly research community has come to depend on a series of open identifier and metadata infrastructure systems to great success. But there is one piece of the infrastructure that is missing – there currently is no open, stakeholder-governed infrastructure for research organization identifiers and their associated metadata. Therefore, after extensive community consultation, ROR was launched

The scope of ROR

The Affiliation Use Case is the main focus: proper description of relationships between contributors, contributions, research sponsors, publishers, and employers. For the purposes of the open registry, “affiliation” describes any formal relationship between a researcher and an organization associated with researchers, including their employer, educator, funder, scholarly society, etc., and is not limited to employment.

Who is ROR for?

There are several potential users of organization identifiers for each sector in the research community. In addition to organizational authorities, there are organizational users, as well as researchers, software developers, and people who are researching organizations. ROR will provide means for public view of record data, both UIand API. In addition, there will be an administrative interface for customer support purposes.

https://www.ror.community