Location
School of Law Seminar Room 3.10
Start Date
5-6-2026 9:00 AM
End Date
5-6-2026 9:30 AM
Description
In 2024, Australia launched its National Persistent Identifier (PID) Strategy to accelerate research quality efficiency, and impact through the universal use of connected PIDs. To measure progress against this strategy, the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) commissioned Digital Science to develop a comprehensive PID benchmarking framework and conduct Australia’s first national assessment of PID adoption. This presentation will share the key findings from the final report, the Australian National Per-sistent Identifier (PID) Benchmarking Toolkit (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29281667).
The report reveals a “mixed score card” for the nation’s research ecosystem. While Australia has achieved world-leading success in ORCID adoption for researchers and publications, the benchmarking reveals significant gaps. Key findings show that Australian researchers trail their European peers in data citation practices, and the use of PIDs for datasets and non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) remains the exception rather than the norm.
We will present the 23 recommendations from the report, including calls for mandatory ORCID implementation, new national policies for dissertations, and a call for institutions to adopt publisher-level PID standards for the NTROs they produce. Will will also reflect on how the ecommendations have been received/developed in the months following the report. Finally, we introduce the open-source benchmarking toolkit itself—including the framework, analysis, and runnable code—as a model that other nations, funders, and consortia can adapt to measure and advance their own PID implementation strategies.
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A Mixed Score Card: Findings and Recommendations from Australia’s National PID Benchmarking Toolkit
School of Law Seminar Room 3.10
In 2024, Australia launched its National Persistent Identifier (PID) Strategy to accelerate research quality efficiency, and impact through the universal use of connected PIDs. To measure progress against this strategy, the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) commissioned Digital Science to develop a comprehensive PID benchmarking framework and conduct Australia’s first national assessment of PID adoption. This presentation will share the key findings from the final report, the Australian National Per-sistent Identifier (PID) Benchmarking Toolkit (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29281667).
The report reveals a “mixed score card” for the nation’s research ecosystem. While Australia has achieved world-leading success in ORCID adoption for researchers and publications, the benchmarking reveals significant gaps. Key findings show that Australian researchers trail their European peers in data citation practices, and the use of PIDs for datasets and non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) remains the exception rather than the norm.
We will present the 23 recommendations from the report, including calls for mandatory ORCID implementation, new national policies for dissertations, and a call for institutions to adopt publisher-level PID standards for the NTROs they produce. Will will also reflect on how the ecommendations have been received/developed in the months following the report. Finally, we introduce the open-source benchmarking toolkit itself—including the framework, analysis, and runnable code—as a model that other nations, funders, and consortia can adapt to measure and advance their own PID implementation strategies.