Towards a National Strategy for Persistent Identifiers in the United States
GO FAIR US encourages and supports recent conversations around national persistent identifier (PID) strategies, particularly in the United States hosted by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Research Funders Group (ORFG).
Thankfully, we build off of the excellent work of the Research Data Alliance in this space and the national strategies in the UK, Australia, and a growing list of countries.
We also encourage these conversations around PID strategies in the open science initiatives from the White House and UNESCO and to continue the related discussions facilitated by AAU-APLU.
GO FAIR US has supported community conversations on a number of the core persistent identifiers. Recent examples include:
ORCID & GO FAIR US: Collaborators Working to Realize a FAIR Data Ecosystem
Using OpenRefine to assess open research at your organization (leveraging DOIs and RORs)
And we invite the community to our next session on RAiDs:
We also recognize the importance of identifiers such as:
And our team members, collaborators, and community members are supporting and implementing these PIDs. This includes the work on machine-actionable data management plans (maDMPs). We closely follow the work from groups such as the newly funded FAIR Open Science Research Coordination Network ‘FAIR Facilities and Instruments’ that focuses on the standardization and adoption of PIDs for research facilities and instruments.
Research is increasingly computational and PIDs will have to be accessible, flexible, and robust to respond to the growing demands for them in research computing and intensive environments. For instance, we recognize the use and value in these cases of identifiers such as Handles, Archival Resource Keys (ARKs), and Globally Unique identifiers (GUIDs) to name a few. We welcome conversations around these identifiers as well and are engaged in forums like FAIR Digital Objects where the use cases for identifiers in these environments are discussed. Most importantly, we believe in equitable access to identifiers and look to programs such as CZI/DataCite’s Global Access Program and VODAN for inspiration.
GO FAIR US is also a place to elevate discussions about research outputs such as software and workflows and their role in these strategies as well.
We welcome a national conversation on PID strategies and are engaged in current community discussions. Reach out to us if you would like to join us in these conversations.