An entry in the ROR registry that has been reviewed and approved by ROR curators against the published inclusion criteria, carrying a stable ROR ID and metadata including names, types, country, geographic location, parent/child/related/successor/predecessor relationships, and crosswalks.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 10 Jul 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A ROR record for Inserm including all aliases (French and English), parent organisation, child research units, and Crossref Funder ID crosswalk.
Is an instance
A ROR record updated to reflect a renaming, while keeping the original ROR ID.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A scraped table of universities from a Wikipedia category is not a curated ROR record.
Not an instance
A vendor's proprietary affiliation taxonomy is not a curated ROR record.

Editorial commentary

Curated org records are the unit of work for ROR Curation. Each record reflects the community’s best representation of an organisation at a point in time. The record is updated as the organisation changes; the identifier is never reissued. This separation of ‘identifier stability’ from ‘metadata mutability’ is a deliberate design feature of ROR (and of well-run identifier registries generally).

References

ROR, 'ROR Data Schema' and 'ROR Curation Policy' (ror.org).

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Curated org record (ROR)"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/curated-org-record-ror" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/curated-org-record-ror",
  "name": "Curated org record (ROR)",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/curated-org-record-ror",
  "description": "An entry in the ROR registry that has been reviewed and approved by ROR curators against the published inclusion criteria, carrying a stable ROR ID and metadata including names, types, country, geographic location, parent/child/related/successor/predecessor relationships, and crosswalks.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/persistent-identifiers#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/curated-org-record-ror",
  "sameAs": [],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-07-10T02:06:20",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

Referenced across the research world

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