ROR
Exploring How AI Can Help Research Data Management
At UC3, several of our latest initiatives involve integrating AI tools, with a particular focus on improving metadata and assisting researchers with creating best practice DMPs. A clear philosophy guides UC3’s approach to the use of generative AI: addressing researchers’ and the broader research community’s needs, keeping humans as the authority, complementing human work for […]
UC3 New Year Series: Persistent Identifiers at CDL in 2025
CDL’s persistent identifier portfolio, which includes the Research Organization Registry (ROR), EZID, Name-to-Thing (N2T), and the new Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) initiative, had a busy and productive year in 2024, seeing record adoption, interest, and making significant technical improvements across its services. These complementary work streams help build a more rational, networked, and efficient […]
Welcome, Adam Buttrick: Introducing UC3’s new Persistent Identifiers Product Manager
Championing PIDs and Open Science at UC3 Hello! My name is Adam Buttrick and I’m excited to be joining the UC3 team to lead its portfolio of persistent identifier-focused products and services. Prior to joining UC3, while based at Crossref, I had the privilege to help build a new persistent identifier service, the Research Organization […]
Join the UC3 Team: Two Senior Product Manager positions now open
UC Curation Center (UC3) is recruiting two Senior Product Manager positions. This is a unique opportunity for someone passionate about shaping the future of scholarly infrastructure on a global scale. If you’re a creative thinker with a knack for innovation, strategic planning, and product management, please consider applying. The past few years have been full […]
Keep on ROR-ing: A Research Organization Registry Update
The Research Organization Registry (ROR) has had a big year! As CDL is a key partner in the ROR initiative, we are posting some updates here about what has been happening with ROR and where we’re going next. The first prototype of the ROR registry launched in January and now includes unique IDs and metadata […]
ROR-ing Together: Implementing Organization IDs in Dryad
Co-authored by Maria Gould and Daniella Lowenberg and cross-posted from the ROR blog How many datasets have been published in Dryad from researchers at the University of California? This question is surprisingly complicated. A short answer might be, we don’t know! A better answer could be, coming soon – stay tuned! And a more complete and […]
Hear Us ROR! Announcing Our First Prototype and Next Steps
What has hundreds of heads, 91,000 affiliations, and roars like a lion? If you guessed the Research Organization Registry community, you’d be absolutely right! Last month was a big and busy one for the ROR project team: we released a working API and search interface for the registry, we held our first ROR community meeting, […]