Request for services: contract curation support for the Research Organization Registry (ROR)
Location: Remote and global
ROR is seeking a short-term curation support contractor as registry curation activities continue to expand. There is no set schedule and the independent contractor would bill their hours monthly.
About ROR and registry curation
The Research Organization Registry (ROR) is a community-led registry of open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifiers for every research organization in the world.
ROR is a cross-organization collaborative led by California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite. Each organization provides input on decisions and overall strategy that support the growth and sustainability of ROR by engaging in outreach to funders, potential adopters, and other stakeholders in their respective networks.
The ROR registry includes IDs and metadata for more than 120,000 research organizations and counting. ROR receives regular input from its global community of users and stakeholders about records that should be added to or updated in the registry. ROR also seeks and incorporates input from the broader community about policies and processes for maintaining registry data. We review and process this feedback through a centralized process and according to metadata policies established and maintained by ROR’s curation advisory board and metadata curation lead. All requests are publicly visible in an open Github repository so that the process is as transparent as possible. New registry releases are published on a rolling basis, approximately once a month.
ROR’s volume of curation activities has been increasing steadily and we are now looking for short-term contract support to help maintain the pipeline of requests.
Scope of work
Curation backlog management and processing
Deliverables: Triage new requests in curation backlog using GitHub-based tools. Evaluate metadata accuracy and complete requests by researching information in ROR, on organizational websites, and other sources such as Google Scholar. Provide recommendations to ROR curation team and advisory board about how requests should be processed
Project support
Deliverables: Review bulk requests or other special projects as identified and assigned by the metadata curation lead. Provide support to curation lead and curation advisory board if troubleshooting is needed
Data analysis/metadata Q&A
Deliverables: Identify opportunities to improve ROR metadata quality and address metadata quality issues at scale.
About you
- Familiarity with GitHub issues and projects (we can provide training)
- Ability to perform intelligent searches on the ROR website (multiple queries etc), related authority sources (e.g. Wikidata, ISNI, ORCID), publication platforms, and scholarly indexes
- Ability to use basic functions of the ROR API (we can provide training)
- Excel/spreadsheet data analysis
- Attention to detail
- Ability to make informed decisions based on ROR inclusion criteria
- Ability to search and analyze information about research institutions and scholarly publications
- Knowledge of research/publishing landscape and persistent identifiers for scholarly communications
- Professional proficiency in English
- Professional proficiency in at least one language other than English is a plus
How to respond
Please send your statement of interest and resume to jobs@crossref.org
Include:
- Examples of similar work (and/or your CV)
- References from previous work
- Hourly rate
