Ringgold Inc
| Privately held company | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Scholarly communication • Authority control • Data governance • Business intelligence |
| Founded 📆 | 2005 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Beaverton, Oregon |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
Key people | Dr. Ralph M. Shoffner (Chairman & CEO, 2005-present) |
| Products 📟 | Identify Database • ProtoView • Consortium Directory Online (CDO) |
| Services | Ringgold Identifier • Identify Audit service • Validate service • Gull's Nest Books • ISNI registration agency |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 30 (2018) |
| 🌐 Website | ringgold |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Ringgold Inc is a data services company with its headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, United States. The company provides organizational identifiers and authoritative data about institutions in the scholarly communications chain to assist the exchange of information throughout the research community, with the focus on data quality, data governance and data discovery.[1] Ringgold Ltd, the company's European operation, is administered in Bristol, United Kingdom.[2]
History[edit]
Ringgold first conceived the Ringgold Identifier (Ringgold ID) in 2002 as an effort to help scholarly publishers identify, disambiguate, and group their institutional subscribers.[3] Ringgold's Identify Database was developed to accommodate the Ringgold ID and now contains more than 400,000 institutional records. [4]
Ringgold acquired Frontline GMS Ltd in 2011 and its CEO Laura Cox joined Ringgold as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.[5]
Ringgold became an ISNI registration agency in 2012.[6]
Ringgold acquired Book News Inc in 2012[7] and added ProtoView to its array of technical products.[8]
Key people[edit]
- From 2003 to 2013, joint-founder Don Chvatal held the role of President before his retirement due to ill health.[9]
- From 2013 to present, Laura Cox acts as President, Chief Financial & Operating Officer
- From 2013 to present, Jay Henry acts as Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
- From 2013 to present, William Haase acts as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer[10]
References[edit]
- ↑ "EBSCO Publishing - The First Aggregator to Implement Ringgold Identifier" (PDF). Ebsco Information Services. 1 December 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "Ringgold Ltd". Companies House. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "Using Institutional and Library Identifiers to Ensure Access to Electronic Resources". The Serials Librarian. 56: 255–259. 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "Science Editor • Summer-Autumn 2014 • Vol 37 • No 3 Annual Meeting Reports Standardizing Data and Data Exchange in Scholarly Publishing" (PDF). Science Editor. 37 (3): 88. 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "Ringgold acquires Frontline GMS Ltd and makes two senior staff appointments". JiscMail. Jisc. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "Bowker Becomes First ISNI Registration Agency in the US". Against The Grain. 1 June 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "Ringgold acquires Book News Inc". Ringgold Inc. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "Ringgold Launches ProtoView". Society for Scholarly Publishing. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ↑ "Customer Bulletin Winter 2015". Ringgold Inc. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- ↑ "Our People". Ringgold Inc. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
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