Community feedback documents

ROR periodically asks for community feedback on proposed major changes to our technology and our data. This page collects those documents into one place for ongoing reference.

ROR schema v2.1 - addition of new location fields

• ROR schema v2.1 draft proposal: Addition of new location fields - proposal open for comment through November 11, 2024
• ROR schema v2.1 final proposal: Addition of new location fields - proposal adopted November 2024

ROR API client identification & rate limiting

• ROR API client identification & rate limiting (public comment draft) - proposal open for comment through October 4, 2024
• ROR API client identification & rate limiting: Public comment summary - summary of comments on proposal
• ROR API client identification & rate limiting - final proposal - proposal adopted October 2024

ROR addition of new external identifiers

• ROR draft curation proposal: Addition of new external identifiers - proposal open for comment through August 16, 2024

ROR schema and API v2 beta

• ROR schema & API v2 (beta) - beta testing open through October 16, 2023

ROR schema v2.0

• ROR Schema v2.0 draft proposal - proposal open for comment through February 2023
• ROR Schema v2.0 second draft proposal - proposal open for comment through April 2023
• ROR Schema v2.0 final proposal - proposal adopted April 2023

Handling schema and API versioning in ROR

• Handling schema & API versioning in ROR (Draft) - proposal open for comment through November 2022
• Handling schema & API versioning in ROR (Final Draft) - proposal adopted November 2022

Handling inactive organizations in ROR

• Handling inactive organizations in ROR (draft) - proposal open for comment through July 2022
• Handling organization status in ROR (Final Draft) - proposal adopted August 2022

ROR typeahead best practices

• ROR typeahead best practices (Draft) - proposal open for comment through November 2021
• ROR typeahead best practices (final draft) - proposal adopted November 2021