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Archives: ROR

No One Size Fits All: The Case for Taking a National Approach to PID Adoption 

Today, Alice Meadows shares some learnings from MoreBrains Cooperative’s recent cost-benefit analysis of persistent identifiers, conducted on behalf of the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK).

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Apr 10, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Tracking Research Facilities in Science: A CSIRO/CHORUS Pilot Sets Sail

A new CSIRO/CHORUS project seeks to improve tracking of the use of research faciilities and their impact.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 25, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Maria Gould of ROR

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Research Organization Registry (ROR), Alice Meadows interviewed Director Maria Gould for today’s Kitchen Essentials post.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 30, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Why PID Strategies Are Having A Moment — And Why You Should Care

Why are national PID strategies having a moment, and why should you care? Find out in today’s post by Alice Meadows.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jan 25, 2023
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

We All Know What We Mean, Can We Just Put It In The Policy?

Funder guidance is too vague when it comes to identifiers and metadata. It needs to get specific to be effective.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Nov 16, 2022
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Making the Case for a PID-Optimized World

In the second of two posts on persistent identifiers in scholarly communications, Phill Jones and Alice Meadows share information about a new cost-benefit analysis showing the value of widespread PID adoption

  • By Alice Meadows, Phill Jones
  • Jun 22, 2021
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The UK National PID Consortium: A Pathway to Increased Adoption

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are an essential part of the open research infrastructure, but need widespread adoption to be effective. Learn about Jisc’s plans to increase adoption through a national PID consortium in this post by Alice Meadows.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jun 29, 2020
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Are You Ready to ROR? An Inside Look at this New Organization Identifier Registry

What is the Research Organization Registry (ROR) and why do we need it? Learn more from the team behind it (CDL, Crossref, DataCite, and Digital Science) in this interview with Alice Meadows.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Dec 4, 2019
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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