Chris Hartgerink, the founder of Liberate Science, discusses why and how they integrated ROR into the modular publishing platform ResearchEquals for author affiliations in user profiles and Crossref DOIs and explains why they live streamed all eight hours of the work:
"Right now our focus is on a serious alternative to the big publishers and an alternative to the article format. And so we built ResearchEquals, which was the first modular publishing platform.
I heard about ROR for the first time when it was still in development. In following along over time, it just made sense to me: ROR is to organizations what ORCID is to individual researchers. Of course we want to know where people come from, what their affiliation is, and have that be entirely unambiguous.
Integrating ROR just makes it very easy to match authors to the same institution. And it also lets you get all the metadata related to an institution so that you can display institutions visually and add more information, like when the institution was founded and where it’s located.
Whenever I have an affiliation in my account, if I publish a module on ResearchEquals, it immediately gets added to my DOI metadata at that time. So if I switched my affiliation, job-wise, and I switched it in ResearchEquals, then at that point all the new DOIs would also have the new affiliation in there."
