ROR Registry API

ROR Registry API

ROR (Research Organization Registry) assigns persistent identifiers to research organizations and publishes them via a keyless REST API and CC0 data dumps on Zenodo. ROR’s documentation says: "All ROR IDs and metadata in the data dump are provided under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ."

Coverage

Organization names, ROR IDs, locations and relationships, searchable via the REST API (e.g. `/v2/organizations?query=`) and available in bulk from the Zenodo data dump. "When new releases of the ROR registry are issued, typically at least once a month, the ROR REST API is updated automatically and a new data dump version is uploaded to Zenodo."

Verdict

Open registry of research organizations with persistent ROR IDs, names, locations and relationships, via a keyless JSON API and CC0 dumps. Licensed CC0-1.0. Rate limits: "No registration is currently required to use the ROR API, but note that the rate limit is a maximum of 2000 requests in a 5-minute period per IP address, and API traffic can be quite heavy at popular times like midnight UTC." Client ID registration is temporarily paused: "No rate limits are currently enforced based on the presence or absence of a client ID, and none will be introduced before registration is restored, so API usage is not affected by this pause." Signal Lab links only.