The ROR of the crowd: get involved!

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-12-04

Summary:

"Fortunately, the Product recommendations were resoundingly conclusive: there is a need for a single top-level registry of truly open identifiers for organizations that conduct research. No department level, no ambiguity. This will allow the more granular options out there to interoperate, and fulfill the core use case long missing from research communications: What organizations are affiliated with what research outputs?

Therefore, more recently, four of the original stakeholders [California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and Digital Science] decided to take a practical approach, to grasp the mantle and get going with a pilot. We set up this website, calling ‘Org ID’ the Research Organization Registry (ROR), and are now discussing technical plans to start building something useful to pilot...."

Link:

https://www.ror.community/blog/2018-12-02-the-ror-of-the-crowd/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.standards oa.universities oa.identifiers oa.metadata oa.hei oa.ror

Date tagged:

12/04/2018, 09:51

Date published:

12/04/2018, 11:12