Ringgold identifier

{{Short description|Identifier for organisations in the publishing industry}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox identifier

| name = Ringgold ID

| image = Ringgold logo.png

| image_size =

| image_caption = Ringgold logo

| image_alt = Ringgold logo

| image_border = no

| full_name = Ringgold Identifier

| acronym = RIN

| number = >518,000

| start_date = {{Start date|2003|df=y}}

| organisation = {{Plainlist|

• Ringgold, Inc.
• Ringgold, Ltd.

}}

| subject = Organizations in the publishing industry supply chain

| example = RIN 5072 (Wellcome Trust)

| website = {{Official URL}}

}}

A Ringgold Identifier (Ringgold ID or RIN) is a persistent numeric unique identifier for organizations in the publishing industry supply chain.{{cite web|url=https://www.ringgold.com/|title=Ringgold Inc|publisher=Ringgold Inc|accessdate=29 January 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.niso.org/workrooms/i2|title=Institutional Identifiers (I2)|publisher=National Information Standards Organization|accessdate=29 January 2018}} Ringgold's Identify Database includes over 500,000 Ringgold IDs representing organizations and consortia who acquire scholarly publications and content.{{cite web|url=https://www.ringgold.com/identify|title=Solutions - Identify Database|publisher=Ringgold Inc|accessdate=29 January 2018}}

The Ringgold ID was introduced in 2003. Ringgold developed it in response to an issue raised by Oxford University Press, namely how to identify institutional subscribers unambiguously.{{cite web|url=https://www.ringgold.com/ringgold-identifier|title=Ringgold Identifier|publisher=Ringgold Inc|accessdate=29 January 2018}} The system is owned and administered by Ringgold, Inc. and Ringgold, Ltd., who also publish a taxonomy for classifying the subject interests of the listed organizations.{{cite web|url=http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/UKSG/292/Ringgolds-new-subject-taxonomy/?n=121b8a3f-e721-4bc0-8354-7ad4d47f99de|title=UKSG eNews|date=2013-03-12|publisher=JISC|accessdate=29 January 2018}}

Ringgold is an International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) registration agency,{{cite web|url=http://www.isni.org/content/orcid-begin-using-ringgold-registration-agency|title=ORCID to begin using Ringgold as Registration Agency|publisher=ISNI|accessdate=29 January 2018}} and as such the US National Information Standards Organization (NISO) recommended that Ringgold IDs be used to identify organizations involved in scholarly communications. Ringgold Identifiers were used by ORCID, to record the institutional affiliation of individual researchers.{{cite web|url=http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/276884-organizations-in-orcid-ringgold-identifiers|title=How are organizations identified in ORCID? – FAQs about the ORCID API|publisher=ORCID|accessdate=29 January 2018}} ORCID announced in 2023 that it will end its support of Ringgold.{{Cite web |title=ORCID support for RINGGOLD organization IDs ending FAQ |url=https://info.orcid.org/orcid-support-for-ringgold-organization-ids-ending/ |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=ORCID |language=en-US}}