GRID (institutional identifiers) is being retired 2021-Q4/2022-Q1

[IanCal]

Hi,

GRID (https://grid.ac/) with identifiers that start "grid." is being retired and promoting community use of a follow-on project called ROR (https://ror.org/). Starting in Q1 2022, the identifiers will no longer resolve to a public facing website.

You reached out to us some time ago and added this to the registry, which was great, and we wanted to let you know about this upcoming change.

We'll watch this issue if there are any followup questions.

Cheers Ian

[nsjuty]

Will there be a redirect in place to resolve to the appropriate ROR? I think that would be very helpful for users who are not aware of this retirement? Or at least some general notification page?

cheers

Nick

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 10:24 AM Ian Calvert @.***> wrote:

Hi,

GRID (https://grid.ac/) with identifiers that start "grid." is being retired and promoting community use of a follow-on project called ROR ( https://ror.org/). Starting in Q1 2022, the identifiers will no longer resolve to a public facing website.

You reached out to us some time ago and added this to the registry, which was great, and we wanted to let you know about this upcoming change.

We'll watch this issue if there are any followup questions.

Cheers Ian

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[IanCal]

We're not running the ROR project, and over time where the redirects should go will drift so we're not planning on adding redirects like that. The ROR team may be able to handle that somewhat, and potentially as a sort-of solution the ROR api + a search may work?

For example: https://api.ror.org/organizations?query=%22grid.14003.36%22

The grid.ac site has a notification about what's happening, I'll find out if that's intended to be long term/permanent or if that has an expiry date as well.

[IanCal]

The grid.ac site explaining what is happening is planned to stay up long term, so redirecting to that could also work

[nsjuty]

Hi Ian,

That sounds a pragmatic solution, particularly if the grid identifier becomes the query part of the redirect on a 'permanent' basis. Else I fear there will be a lot of confusion.

Thanks for your reply!

cheers

Nick

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 1:00 PM Ian Calvert @.***> wrote:

We're not running the ROR project, and over time where the redirects should go will drift so we're not planning on adding redirects like that. The ROR team may be able to handle that somewhat, and potentially as a sort-of solution the ROR api + a search may work?

For example: https://api.ror.org/organizations?query=%22grid.14003.36%22

The grid.ac site has a notification about what's happening, I'll find out if that's intended to be long term/permanent or if that has an expiry date as well.

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[renatocjn]

Going to close this for some housekeeping.