Feature Request: Add ROR to the citation metadata block author identifier field

[cmbz]

Overview of the Feature Request

• To further our implementation of the GREI Metadata and Search Subcommittee Recommendations_V01_2023-06-29, the citation metadata field must support Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifiers. We'll need to add "ROR" to the list of identifiers that users can select from the Author Identifier Type field:

  

What kind of user is the feature intended for?
(Example users roles: API User, Curator, Depositor, Guest, Superuser, Sysadmin)

• Depositors

What inspired the request?

• The Dataverse team is committed to implement the GREI Metadata and Search Subcommittee Recommendations_V01_2023-06-29 intended to improve data description and findability. Support for ROR identifiers is a GREI recommendation.

What existing behavior do you want changed?

• Dataverse software currently does not support this feature

Any open or closed issues related to this feature request?

• Feature Request/Idea: Allow ORCID and ROR to be used together in author field #10711
• Evaluate and document evaluation of ROR plug-in on Demo Dataverse #10460
• QA for Fundreg and ROR support #9973
• Deploy 'External Vocabulary' scripts, developed by QDR, to Author and Funding fields on Harvard Dataverse dataverse.harvard.edu#326

[pdurbin]

I made a pull request:

• add ROR as an Author Identifier Type #11118

@cmbz please see the question I asked in there. Thanks.