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Comments are open through August 16th. ROR records already include mappings to Crossref Funder IDs, Wikidata, ISNI, and GRID. What additional external IDs do you feel should be added? What criteria do you think other identifiers should meet in order to be added to ROR?</p><p class=read-more><a href=https://ror.org/blog/2024-07-18-id-ideas/ class="btn btn-sm btn-round">Continue reading</a></p></div></div></section><section class=post><div class=row><div class=col-md-4><div class=image><a href=https://ror.org/blog/2023-10-12-ror-funder-registry-overlap/><img src=/img/blog/funder-overlap/overlap-blank-charts.png class="img-raised rounded" alt></a></div></div><div class=col-md-8><strong class=blog-category><a class=category-link href=https://ror.org/categories/explainers>Explainers</a></strong><h2><a href=https://ror.org/blog/2023-10-12-ror-funder-registry-overlap/>How ROR and the Open Funder Registry Overlap: A Closer Look at the Data</a></h2><div class="clearfix post-meta"><p class=author>By Amanda French and Adam Buttrick</p><p class=date-comments>October 12, 2023</p></div><p class=intro>ROR is ready to take on the important work that the Open Funder Registry has been doing: identifying research funders in a clean, consistent, comprehensive, and interoperable way. This post compares both registries and provides data showing that most of the Open Funder Registry records that see the most use already have equivalent records in ROR.</p><p class=read-more><a href=https://ror.org/blog/2023-10-12-ror-funder-registry-overlap/ class="btn btn-sm btn-round">Continue reading</a></p></div></div></section><section class=post><div class=row><div class=col-md-4><div class=image><a href=https://ror.org/blog/2023-09-07-open-funder-registry-transition-ror/><img src=https://assets.crossref.org/logo/crossref-logo-200.svg class="img-raised rounded" alt></a></div></div><div class=col-md-8><strong class=blog-category><a class=category-link href=https://ror.org/categories/general-updates>General Updates</a></strong><h2><a href=https://ror.org/blog/2023-09-07-open-funder-registry-transition-ror/>Open Funder Registry to Transition to ROR</a></h2><div class="clearfix post-meta"><p class=author>By Amanda French, Ginny Hendricks, Rachael Lammey, Fabienne Michaud and Maria Gould</p><p class=date-comments>September 7, 2023</p></div><p class=intro>Crossref has announced a long-term plan to deprecate the Open Funder Registry and merge it with ROR in order to make workflows more efficient for all concerned. ROR and Crossref are working closely together on this important initiative.</p><p class=read-more><a href=https://ror.org/blog/2023-09-07-open-funder-registry-transition-ror/ class="btn btn-sm btn-round">Continue reading</a></p></div></div></section><section class=post><div class=row><div class=col-md-4><div class=image><a href=https://ror.org/blog/2019-02-12-ror-recap-from-pidapalooza/><img src=/img/banners/ror-lion-mask.jpg class="img-raised rounded" alt></a></div></div><div class=col-md-8><strong class=blog-category><a class=category-link href=https://ror.org/categories/event-recaps>Event Recaps</a></strong><h2><a href=https://ror.org/blog/2019-02-12-ror-recap-from-pidapalooza/>A ROR-ing recap from PIDapalooza</a></h2><div class="clearfix post-meta"><p class=author>By Maria Gould</p><p class=date-comments>February 12, 2019</p></div><p class=intro>In the days following the ROR community meeting in Dublin, we had a chance to spread the word about ROR in presentations at PIDapalooza, 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