This blog post is cross-posted from the Research Organization Registry blog with a preceding introductory paragraph from DataCite. DataCite together with California Digital Library and Crossref sustain the Research Organization Registry (ROR) operations through expertise in developing open, sustainable, community-driven infrastructure for scholarly communications. ROR is a critical part of the open infrastructure and enables […]
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Powering the PID Graph: announcing the DataCite GraphQL API
Today DataCite launches a new API that powers the PID Graph, the graph formed by scholarly resources described by persistent identifiers (PIDs) and the connections between them. The API is powered by GraphQL, a widely adopted Open Source technology that enables queries of this graph, addressing use cases of our community in ways that were […]
DataCite works on ROR in second German ORCID project
In recent years, the creation of infrastructures for global and unique identification of researchers has been promoted by universities, research institutions, and publishers through the use and implementation of ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID). In Germany, after a first successful project phase (2016-2019), the project ORCID DE (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG) […]
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, […]