Hi ROR users,
As 2022 comes to a close, we've got one last request for feedback.
You'll
almost certainly want to chime in on this one: our draft proposal of major changes to the
ROR data model for schema version 2.0. Comments
are open until February 5, 2023, and we hope to
release version 2.0 of the ROR schema and API in late 2023.
There
are
four major categories of alteration we’re proposing for
ROR schema 2.0:
- Standardizing, clarifying, and reorganizing name
fields (name, aliases, labels)
- Removing repetitive, excessively granular location information
retrieved from the GeoNames API (sub-fields in addresses)
- Rethinking web domain information
(email_address, ip_addresses, links)
- Restructuring external identifiers to allow
future addition or removal of identifier types without schema
changes (sub-fields in external_ids)
- Adding administrative information such as
created and last modified dates
Many of these are breaking changes, but we think it’s better
to do a lot of them all at once so that future changes to the schema
can be
made with minimal disruption to existing ROR integrations. Let us
know what you
think by commenting in the
proposal
Google Doc (so that the conversation all happens in one place)
or emailing
sup...@ror.org.
Cheers,
Amanda