# Learn more about ROR as ROR turns four!

**URL:** <https://community.crossref.org/t/learn-more-about-ror-as-ror-turns-four/3273>\
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**Created:** [24 January 2023 00:23 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/learn-more-about-ror-as-ror-turns-four/3273 "2023-01-24T00:23:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [24 January 2023 00:23 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/learn-more-about-ror-as-ror-turns-four/3273/1 "2023-01-24T00:23:35Z")

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[ROR, the Research Organization Registry](https://ror.org), is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations – and Crossref’s preferred organizational identifier for author affiliations in DOIs.

ROR will be four years old in February, and in honor of that anniversary we’re hosting **four events as part of our Annual Meeting on January 31st and February 1st.** We’ve got something for you if you’re already a ROR fan (we have many), and we’ve got something for you if you just want to learn what ROR is all about. (Hint: it’s a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations, and it’s Crossref’s preferred organizational identifier.)

1. **General ROR Update** , January 31st, 15:00 UTC - what we’ve been up to in the last year

2. **ROR Drop-In Hour** , January 31st, 0:00 UTC - ask us anything!

3. **Introduction to the ROR API** , February 1st, 15:00 UTC - a hands-on interactive training session for those interested in API access to the ROR dataset

4. **Strategies for Matching Affiliation Strings to ROR IDs** , February 1st, 17:00 UTC - an exciting session for more technical users on methods of matching text strings to ROR IDs, featuring talks and demos by [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org), the US Department of Energy’s [Office of Scientific and Technical Information](https://www.osti.gov/), the [Allen Institute for AI](https://allenai.org/), and [Crossref](https://crossref.org).

Register for one or more sessions on the [ROR Events page](https://ror.org/events/#annual-ror-community-meeting). Hope to see you there!  
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