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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

It Takes a Village: Empowering the Community to Improve Scholarly Metadata through COMET

What if the community could collaborate to fix scholarly metadata? The COMET initiative is about to find out…

  • By Tim Vines
  • Mar 10, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

A Case Study: Investing in Open Scholarly Infrastructure in Ireland Will Save Time and Money. It’ll Also Be Good for Research.

National PID strategies are on the rise. In this post, Phill Jones reports the findings of cost-benefit analysis of investment in PIDs and research infrastructure in Ireland.

  • By Phill Jones
  • May 2, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 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

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

Is Infrastructure Consolidation the Next Step? CCC Acquires Ringgold

In the light of CCCs acquisition of Ringgold last week, three Chefs, Phill Jones, Roger Schonfeld, and Todd Carpenter reflect on the motivations for the move and its implications for PIDs and organisational identifiers.

  • By Phill Jones, Roger C. Schonfeld, Todd A Carpenter
  • May 10, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 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

#PIDapalooza19: A Whole Lotta PIDs

The third PIDapalooza took place in Dublin in late January. Alice Meadows shares some of her thoughts on this festival of open identifiers.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Feb 5, 2019
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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