Welcome to ATR
Exploring a Green, Accessible, Sustainable Web
ATR is an open-source research project that explores how modern digital infrastructure can be designed, developed, and maintained with a smaller environmental footprint while remaining accessible and economically sustainable.
Finding the invisible: ATR first contribution to ROR
2026-05-30 - While processing the ROR dataset, ATR discovered hidden Unicode characters that affected alphabetical sorting. By sharing this early finding with the ROR community, ATR made its first contribution to improving the quality of the registry. Read the short
How it works
The project uses the Research Organization Registry (ROR) as its primary research dataset. ATR imports ROR data into a local filesystem database. Software agents then validate, test, and augment the dataset, writing the results back to ATR and publishing statistics, lists, and enriched reference records.