ROR Data

Data dump from the Research Organization Registry (ROR), a community-led registry of open identifiers for research organizations. Release v1.45 contains ROR IDs and metadata for 109,141 research organizations in JSON and CSV format. This includes the addition of 110 new records and metadata updates to 106 existing records. See the release notes. Release v1.45 is the first data release curated using ROR schema v2.0 and the first that contains files in both schema v1 and schema v2 format. For current data dump users, this means that you will find 4 files in this release instead of 2. v2 files have `_schema_v2` in the filename. All 4 files contain the same records, however, new/updated records in this release have been curated in v2 and crosswalked from v2 to v1. v1 fields that do not exist in v2 are empty or null. Learn more about the schema v2 launch. Data format Beginning with release v1.45 on 11 April 2024, data releases contain JSON and CSV files formatted according to both schema v1 and schema v2. v2 files have `_schema_v2` appended to the end of the filename, ex v1.45-2024-04-11-ror-data_schema_v2.json. In order to maintain compatibility with previous releases, v1 files have no version information in the filename, ex v1.45-2024-04-11-ror-data.json. For both versions, the CSV file contains a subset of fields from the JSON file, some of which have been flattened for easier parsing. As ROR records and the ROR schema are maintained in JSON, CSVs are for convenience only. JSON is the format of record. Release versioning Beginning with v1.45 in April 2024, ROR has introduced schema versioning, with files available in schema v1 and schema v2. The ROR API default version, however, remains v1 and will be changed to v2 in April 2025. To align with the API, the data dump major version will remain 1 until the API default version is changed to v2. At that time, the data dump major version will be incremented to 2 per below. Data releases are versioned as follows: Minor versions (ex 1.1, 1.2, 1.3): Contain changes to data, such as new records and updates to existing records. No changes to the data model/structure. Patch versions (ex 1.0.1): Used infrequently to correct errors in a release. No changes to the data model/structure. Major versions (ex 1.x, 2.x, 3.x): Contain changes to data model/structure, as well as the data itself. Major versions will be released with significant advance notice. For convenience, the date is also included in the release file name, ex: v1.0-2022-03-15-ror-data.zip. Licensing The ROR data dump is provided under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Location data in ROR comes from GeoNames and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.