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
License
CC0-1.0
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
Ontology

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection
Synapse.org external links
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. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. 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