ROR (Research Organization Registry) is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations. ROR is jointly operated by California Digital Library, Crossref, and Datacite.

Prefix
ror
Keywords
data management ontology
Links
Homepage Repository OWL @ResearchOrgs@mastodon.social
Contact
Maria Gould   0000-0002-2916-3423   mariagould
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Research Organization Registry should match this regular expression:
^0[a-hj-km-np-tv-z|0-9]{6}[0-9]{2}$

Example Local Unique Identifier
03yrm5c26   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Research Organization Registry should match this regular expression:
^ror:0[a-hj-km-np-tv-z|0-9]{6}[0-9]{2}$

Example CURIE
ror:03yrm5c26
Metaregistry Research Organization Registry

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BARTOC Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications logo bartoc 20474
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.1jKfji
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam ror
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t ror
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 03yrm5c26 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Research Organization Registry. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Research Organization Registry ror https://ror.org/03yrm5c26
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/ror:03yrm5c26
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/ror:03yrm5c26
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/ror:03yrm5c26