US Federal RORs

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The U.S. Federal Government is a major participant in the global research community and keeping track of research supported by the U.S. Federal Government is an important task. The Wikipedia List of United States research and development agencies includes five independent agencies, thirteen cabinet level agencies, and four multi-agency initiatives. Most of these include multiple layers of centers, divisions, services, institutes, directorates, and other organizations, each of which carry out, fund, and oversee research in almost every conceivable discipline.

The Research Organization Registry is a community-led project that aims to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization in the world. It is supported by several large identifier infrastructure operators (CrossRef and DataCite) as well as the University of California systemwide California Digital Library and recently released the first version of a registry based on GRIDs donated to the effort by Digital Science. Until the ROR community takes over curation and management of the Registry, the contents will continue to be the GRID data . The GRID database is updated several times a year according to open policies, and is publicly available at no cost and dumps of the ROR data are also available.

Adopting any new identifier system, even when benefits are well known, is a significant challenge. The ROR community roadmap identifies a number of product, policy, and community development tasks including raising awareness among community members. The goal of this blog is to raise ROR awareness among researchers affiliated with the U.S. Federal Government. How can these researchers use ROR and what future work might help facilitate adoption in the U.S. Federal research community?