Slides and recording from March ROR Community Call are available

[Amanda French]

Hi all, 

The slides and recording from last week's ROR Community Call are now available at https://ror.org/events/2026-03-26-ror-community-call/

Highlights: 

• ROR will be attending the STM US conference, CSE, FORCE2026, and PIDfest this year
• In Q1, ROR's work has included making improvements to the curation workflow, reconciling Japanese records, and focusing on creating records for scholarly societies
• We're also working to make the new "single search" matching strategy the default in the matching endpoint of the ROR API
• In June, we'll be working to refresh the ROR web search, with the goal of releasing improvements in the fall
• Featured ROR users include openRxiv, VIVO, and the Flemish Organization Registry
• Yvonne Campfens gives the details of OA Switchboard's planned implementation of the ROR single search matching strategy, and their approach includes creating affiliation strings from values different JATS fields, which can vary widely by publisher
• Jagadeeswararao Poluru of Europe PMC & Alma Nilsson of SciLifeLab co-present about an initiative to make the research SciLifeLab supports discoverable on Europe PMC, which you can also read about here: https://doi.org/10.71938/swyy-1w10

Many thanks to our guest presenters! If you'd like your work to be featured on an upcoming call, please let us know!

Cheers,

Amanda