Location
School of Law Seminar Room 3.10
Start Date
5-6-2026 10:00 AM
End Date
5-6-2026 10:30 AM
Description
Over the last two years, national and regional PID strategies, including the US National PID Strategy, have helped communities to adopt and integrate persistent identifiers into research workflows. These strategies have highlighted a crucial next step: reaching a shared understanding of what actually constitutes a PID.
Building on the momentum of these strategies, NISO and RDA-US have launched a working group to develop a formal standard defining the characteristics of a persistent identifier system. This standard will help funders, institutions, infrastructure providers, and policymakers make consistent decisions about which identifiers to mandate, support, and integrate into workflows. This presentation will report on what we have learned from convening stakeholders through national PID strategy efforts, share early insights from the NISO working group, and surface the complexities of defining PIDs, including governance, openness, persistence commitments, and resolution infrastructure. The session will be highly participatory: attendees will be invited to provide input on the scope of the standard, raise edge cases (e.g., proprietary identifiers, discipline-specific systems), and discuss how to ensure global alignment. Together, we will explore how a clear definition of PIDs can reduce duplication, improve interoperability, and strengthen the entire open research information ecosystem.
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From National PID Strategies to a Global PID Standard: Defining What Counts as a PID
School of Law Seminar Room 3.10
Over the last two years, national and regional PID strategies, including the US National PID Strategy, have helped communities to adopt and integrate persistent identifiers into research workflows. These strategies have highlighted a crucial next step: reaching a shared understanding of what actually constitutes a PID.
Building on the momentum of these strategies, NISO and RDA-US have launched a working group to develop a formal standard defining the characteristics of a persistent identifier system. This standard will help funders, institutions, infrastructure providers, and policymakers make consistent decisions about which identifiers to mandate, support, and integrate into workflows. This presentation will report on what we have learned from convening stakeholders through national PID strategy efforts, share early insights from the NISO working group, and surface the complexities of defining PIDs, including governance, openness, persistence commitments, and resolution infrastructure. The session will be highly participatory: attendees will be invited to provide input on the scope of the standard, raise edge cases (e.g., proprietary identifiers, discipline-specific systems), and discuss how to ensure global alignment. Together, we will explore how a clear definition of PIDs can reduce duplication, improve interoperability, and strengthen the entire open research information ecosystem.