Hi all,
After more than six months of planning, community feedback,
implementation, and testing, we're thrilled to announce that today
we have released a set of changes to the ROR API that allow us to
support cases where an organization has ceased to operate, has
merged with another organization, or was added to ROR in error.
In essence, we've added two new allowable values to the "status"
field: "inactive" and "withdrawn." We've also introduced new values
in the "relationships" field for "Successor" and "Predecessor"
organizations. The ROR web search and API will both return only
"active" records by default, but we've added new status filters to
both so that you can retrieve inactive and withdrawn records as
well.
Read
all about the ROR API changes on the changelog.
In conjunction with these changes, we have also issued a new
version of the ROR registry, v1.15, which includes for the first
time records whose status is "inactive" or "withdrawn." No new
records were added, but 148 total records were updated: 103 records
were made inactive, 9 records were withdrawn, and 36 records
received ordinary updates. Please note that the newest version of
the
ROR data dump on Zenodo contains all
records regardless of status.
Read
all about v.1.5 of the ROR Registry in the release notes.
Thanks so much to all who gave feedback and helped us test! If you
have any feedback about the changes, feel free to reply to this post
or write
sup...@ror.org.
Cheers,
Amanda