The community-driven process by which the Research Organization Registry receives, reviews, and acts on requests to add new organisations, update existing records, merge duplicates, or split records, governed by a published curation policy and managed by ROR's curation team.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 10 Jul 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A new biomedical institute requesting a ROR ID via the public submission form.
Is an instance
A university merger resulting in a new ROR ID for the merged entity and 'predecessor' relationships on the originals.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
Editing a researcher's ORCID employment is not ROR curation.
Not an instance
Updating a publisher's Crossref membership metadata is not ROR curation.

Editorial commentary

Requests are submitted through a public form and reviewed against ROR’s inclusion criteria (an entity must be a research-active organisation with a stable web presence and identifiable mission). The curation team triages, validates, and publishes monthly release files. Major events (mergers, splits, dissolutions) are reflected in relationships fields and successor/predecessor relationships rather than by silently mutating the previous identifier — this preserves the persistence of issued ROR IDs even as organisations change.

References

ROR, 'ROR Curation Policy' (ror.org).

Also known as

ROR registry curation

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="ROR Curation"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/ror-curation" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/ror-curation",
  "name": "ROR Curation",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/ror-curation",
  "description": "The community-driven process by which the Research Organization Registry receives, reviews, and acts on requests to add new organisations, update existing records, merge duplicates, or split records, governed by a published curation policy and managed by ROR's curation team.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/persistent-identifiers#set",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/ror-curation",
  "sameAs": [
    "ROR registry curation"
  ],
  "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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