All ROR ids seem to resolve to California Digital library

[ianfore]

e.g. see https://ror.org/02catss52 which shows the ROR id for EBI, or https://ror.org/02meqm098 for NCBI

However both ror:02catss52 and ror:02meqm098 resolve to California Digital Library, University of California Office of the President.

The explanation may have something to do with the fact that California Digital Library, is the sample identifier given in the registry.

[ianfore]

Note that the above only applies when the id is entered on the "Resolve a Compact Identifier" page. The URL https://identifiers.org/ror:02catss52 does resolve correctly

[renatocjn]

Hi,

In the resolution page, e.g. https://identifiers.org/resolve?query=ror:02catss52 and https://identifiers.org/resolve?query=ror:02meqm098, the name written under each resolved URL is the name of the institution associated with a given resource under the namespace being resolved. In case of ROR, it shows California Digital Library because that is the institution associated with the resource of the ROR namespace.

This is unrelated to the actual data object being resolved. If this is confusing, we could change this to show the resource name in addition to the institution. Querying resolved URLs from any namespace to find a suitable label is unlikely to be practical.

Hopefully, this clears things up.

[ianfore]

My recollection is that previously "resolve a compact identifier" resolved all the way through to the object identified. That's also what I would expect for resolving the identifier. Essentially what it does now is resolve the prefix to who the provider is. You can click through to resolution of the identifier - so you can get there eventually.

[renatocjn]

You are correct about the definition of "resolve a compact identifier".

The resolve page will list all available locations of the identified object based on the available resources of the object's namespace . It is a frontend to the resolver API, see http://resolver.api.identifiers.org/ror:02catss52. From it, users can further click on a resolved URL to visit a provider's page on a resource.

If you would rather go directly to a resolved URL instead, the resolver page is not what you should be using. Instead, use a base identifers.org URL, and you will be redirected to the resolved URL with the highest recommendation index. In this case, https://identifiers.org/ror:02catss52.

[renatocjn]

Will be closing this for inactivity