Today’s post is the first of two in which we look at the state of persistent identifiers and what they mean for publishers—to coincide with the first meeting, on June 21, of the new UK Research Identifier National Coordinating Council (RINCC) and publication the same day of a Cost Benefit Analysis Report, funded by the UK Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for Open Access project.
Over the last few years, there has been significant progress in developing recommendations, policies, and procedures for creating, promoting, and using persistent identifiers (PIDs). PIDapalooza, the flagship conference for PID providers and users, is now five years old and continues to grow. A number of funders and national research organizations are developing their own PID roadmaps, like this one from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the UK National PID Consortium. And the more established PID providers (Crossref, ORCID, DataCite), are being joined by new and emerging organizations and initiatives. These include the increasingly widely adopted Research Organization Registry (ROR), a community-led open identifier for research institutions; and the Research Activity Identifier (RAiD), an early-stage project, led by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) that is a container ID for research projects. In addition, Crossref themselves are working with funders to register DOIs for awarded grants.
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