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[FEATURE] Provide an alias-to-ROR data dump and/or directions for creating one #230

Open amandafrench opened 3 months ago

amandafrench commented 3 months ago

Describe the problem you would like to solve A user asks: "At the moment there's one ROR to many aliases in a single field but it would be helpful to have a data dump which lists each alias with the relevant ROR. We would find this useful (less to convert in code)."

Describe the solution you'd like A data dump with every label, acronym, and alias in a single field mapped to its corresponding ROR

Who would benefit from this feature? Developers integrating ROR

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JohnCambridge commented 3 months ago

We use ROR as part of a manuscript affiliation matching process and one of the things we are discussing internally is how we enrich the ROR API/data dump data to make the machine match more accurate. It would be wonderful to have a data dump option, which listed the ROR against each alias as per the crude example attached (which is only to illustrate the RORs repeating per alias listed and is not meant to infer a layout). Example

amandafrench commented 3 months ago

Interesting, @JohnCambridge, thanks so much -- helps to know that you want it for name matching. You've probably seen it, but just in case you haven't, we do have a guide on various methods of matching names to ROR IDs using various tools, including some third-party tools where you can see the code: https://ror.readme.io/docs/matching