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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Stunning!! Thanks Niklas!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"> Niklas Zimmer [mailto:niklas.zimmer@uct.ac.za]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 21 May 2020 16:46<br>
<b>To:</b> Ina Smith <Ina@assaf.org.za>; irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [IRTalk] ROR - Research Organization Registry and Organizational IDs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Ina, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you! Done!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Niklas<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">IRTalk <<a href="mailto:irtalk-bounces@lists.lib.sun.ac.za">irtalk-bounces@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a>> on behalf of Ina Smith <<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 16:43<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za">irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a>" <<a href="mailto:irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za">irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[IRTalk] ROR - Research Organization Registry and Organizational IDs</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Dear Colleagues</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Similar to persistent identifiers for researchers assigned through ORCiD, persistent Identifiers for organisations across are assigned through ROR, and
are becoming increasingly important through linking metadata contained in different systems. This in turn leads to systems being connected to one another, communicating with one another. Read more at
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://protect-za.mimecast.com/s/u1YwCAnX51ig297GI82jRX/">https://ror.org/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">“<span style="color:#2C2C2C;background:white">ROR is the Research Organization Registry, a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique
identifier for every research organization in the world.”</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Herewith an example of an entry for the
<a href="https://ror.org/00g0p6g84">University of Pretoria</a>:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://grid.ac/institutes/grid.49697.35"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="874" height="378" id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image005.png@01D62F8F.7E8F07E0"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Please make sure your organisation is registered and assigned an ID through completing the online form:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#1F4E79">Please help make sure your organisation also appears here, and make African organisations more visible.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">With kind regards</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79">Ina</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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