PIDapalooza 2021

How can we balance our reliance on global networks of PIDs against national priorities? How can PID providers manage and develop research infrastructures to support international research activities whilst meeting the needs of researchers who operate in the local contexts in which research is actually done? In the UK we have developed a unified national approach to these questions, with the goal of representing our community more effectively on the global stage. We have brought together researchers, funders, administrators, publishers, librarians and technologists in a national coordinating committee especially for PIDs. We have identified the top priorities (PIDs, policies, and workflows) and we are working as a unified voice to connect with PID communities of practice from around the world. We conduct research to inform our consensus decisions, and have used this to build out long term strategic roadmaps to help our researchers and international partners alike benefit from common open PIDs. Can this approach scale? Can it really support the stability and growth of the PID network? Join us to discuss our vision - and the possible pitfalls along the way - as we strive to be the best node in the PID network we possibly can be.

Our raPID embrace of digital technology has created an incredibly fertile ground for innovations and transformations across the research world, from exascale data to the digital humanities. The novelty and potential of this new environment has prompted the creation of new kinds of entities, and many variations in the ways we identify them. This fertile, rapidly evolving context is analogous to the proliferation of new life during the Cambrian Explosion. 541 million years ago, the ancestors of most modern life forms sprang into being, evolving to occupy countless niches in the prehistoric ecosystem. The current PID landscape has many similar ‘niche dwellers’ - PIDs that have been developed to meet the needs of specific communities,disciplinary practices and leverage new technologies. As we hear more calls for simplification of the landscape, and consolidation around a few (or sometimes just one) PID system, why not embrace diversity instead? Consider: which of the Cambrian species could have predicted how evolution would progress? As practices evolve and consolidate, and technology shifts, some PID systems may well die out. That’s not necessarily a problem - as long as the information they hold can still be used by future generations.That said, having established the essential role of diversity we also investigate if it is also possible to sometimes have too much of a good thing… If you can only survive under very specific conditions and can’t interact with anything outside your niche, maybe you’ve stumbled into an evolutionary dead end?

We invite you to join us on a journey through the raPID evolution of PIDs, and ask why would we seek to narrow our field of innovation at this critical moment in PID evolution? Instead, we would argue that we should embrace diversity instead - while designing for extinction.

Bring some words or phrases that you find interesting, in a language that you can type into an etherpad or speak into your computer's microphone. Feel free to sing them too! Then let's explore them together and see how they are related to meanings or to words and phrases in other languages, and at what points in that network of interactions the introduction of persistent identifiers would be beneficial.

The session's etherpad sits at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/zenodo.4253308 and further materials related to the session shall be available via https://10.5281/zenodo.4253308 when the session starts.

In order to examine how research institutions in Ukraine are applying research information management practices, The State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine with Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine to conduct a web-based survey that was administered from September 2020 through November 2020, yielding 1200 responses from 80 institutions of higher education, demonstrating the national nature of research information management activities.

Survey results details the complexity of research information management practices and examines how not commercial and open-source platforms are becoming widely implemented across regions, coexisting with a large number of region-specific solutions as well as locally developed systems.

It also considers the urgent need for system-to-system interoperability - with both internal and external systems - and demonstrates how the use of identifiers, standards, and protocols are perceived as most valuable when they can also facilitate interoperability.

The growing need for improved interoperability between managing open access workflows and the curation of institutional research outputs metadata is giving rise to the increasing functional merging of research information management systems and institutional repositories and further reinforcing the need for complex, cross-stakeholder teams to support institutional RIM activities, commonly featuring research institutions, and increasingly, the library.

This session will introduce the global development of DOI, and how DOI facilitates the research in China. It will also discuss the collaboration of DOI and other PIDs as the key research infrastructure.

Wikidata is often referred to as a hub for persistent identifiers. In this session, it is postulated that Wikidata is actually a PID community working to gather and curate identifiers related to research activity. After a brief introduction to Wikidata, an overview of the PID coverage and mappings will be presented. Questions about Wikidata, in general, or related to a specific PID, will be invited before the session concludes with a discussion of potential opportunities for cooperation between the Wikidata community and other PID communities.

AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research. We provide a platform for African scientists to upload their working papers, preprints, accepted manuscripts (post-prints), and published papers to partner platforms and services we work with such as ScienceOpen, Open Science Framework, Zenodo, Figshare and PubPub. We thereby provide options to link data and code, and for article versioning. We have set out to deploy all currently available persistent identifier systems (ORCID, ROR, DOI, etc.) to design a platform that is state of the art and most possible/feasible interoperable in serving the African scholarly community and aloow for fruitful collaborations on a global scale to occur.

In this session, you will drop in at the Metadata Do More zoom-athon to make your contribution to metadata activism and help metadata to make a difference.

In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly put forth 17 goals to “transform our world”. These goals aim to tackle the big, important problems facing society. Scholarly research is critical to ensuring our collective response is timely and enduring. Open metadata is the foundational infrastructure that fuels innovation and is key to ensuring that research can be available, relevant, and used by everyone who needs it.

Play your part, help us improve the quality of metadata for research. Metadata 2020 is a collaboration that advocates richer, connected, and reusable, open metadata for all research outputs, which will advance scholarly pursuits for the benefit of society.

Richer metadata fuels discovery and innovation. Connected metadata bridges the gaps between systems and communities. Reusable, open metadata eliminates duplication of effort. When we settle for inadequate metadata, none of this is possible and everyone suffers as a consequence.

The recently concluded FREYA project commissioned a report to explore the feasibility of a PID Federation or some other type of entity to ensure the sustainability of PID Service providers and their users. This session will update the community on the aspects of the idea explored during the consultation, the report's recommendations and the FREYA project's response to it. Attendees will also have the chance to provide feedback on the report's findings.

Here is a motivating example: https://doi.org/10.4213/rm892 and https://doi.org/10.1070/RM1997v052n06ABEH002155 are actually the same article (in Russian and English) but you would have never guessed if not for the link at http://www.mathnet.ru/php/archive.phtml?wshow=paper&jrnid=rm&paperid=892&option_lang=eng.

At this session we would like to discuss the problem of linking versions of the same article published in different languages. We will start by presenting what we learnt so far (hasTranslation and isTranslationOf relations on Crossref; ethical aspects of publishing in several languages, credit attribution beyond authorship, etc.) and then open the floor to community for sharing their stories, asking questions, etc. We would love to have it as diverse as possible, so please come also if you do not speak English.

Сессия открыта для тех, кто не говорит по английски!
Venite, anche se non parlate Inglese!
Ihr seid willkommen, auch wenn ihr kann kein English!

A breakout session at Repository Fringe in Edinburgh in 2018 began the discussion on capturing practice-based arts research in repositories in the UK and discussed the fact that many repository systems don’t adequately reflect what this research looks like. At a similar time the UK focussed Practice Research Advisory Group – a researcher led community – was having discussions about how to ensure this research is discoverable and preserved for the long term. Awareness and experiences captured by these communities led Jisc to hold an event in March 2019 on Capturing Practice Research: improving visibility and searchability. What had been a UK focussed discussion was then taken to an international audience with a panel discussion session at Open Repositories in 2019 in Hamburg. These discussions have identified that the persistent identifier landscape isn’t really an even playing field for this research which doesn’t tend to look like other, more traditional forms of research.

This session aims to bring together interested people from all over the world to talk about PIDs in practice-based arts research. It will start with a brief case study on the experience at the University of Westminster, based in London in the UK, who engaged with their practice-based arts research community (and supplier Haplo) to develop their new open source repository software to identify what this research looks like and how the repository could better reflect it. We will then highlight how various Persistent Identifiers don’t quite fit the practice-research landscape – or where they could do, how and where practitioners require more specific guidance that addresses practice research. Without this, the many benefits of the PID graph/landscape are not available to the practice-based research community. The specific examples we will cover include: ORCID iDs, DOIs, RAID and the CRediT taxonomy.

Discussions have started in various PID communities (with discussions at the UK ORCID Consortium Work Types Event earlier this year) however they are very UK/Europe-centric and we feel that PIDapalooza is the perfect opportunity to engage with interested people from all over the world to bring conversations together.

How might we identify what gets captured and what remains uncaptured and why is that important to humanities scholars worldwide? How can we make better use of open research infrastructures to focus on all parts of the research and publishing process and ensure these are recognised, linked and discoverable; just as with traditional research products?

Join public humanities scholars and publishers to workshop how to better define the open publication pathway and assign the right PIDs for engaged scholars in the humanities.

Session prep - update 26 Jan
We'll be annotating this during our session - feel free to dig in before Thursday's session! And asking these questions:

• How might we indicate how publicly engaged scholarship aligns with OR practices?
• What do publishing structures need to do support public humanities publication aspirations?

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Where do you go for your PID news? Where do you interact with your PID colleagues? Where do you ask your PID questions? The answer is — or should be! — the PID Forum!

As pidforum.org starts a new phase of life with its new host, NISO, following the conclusion of the FREYA Project, we want to hear how we can make it even more useful for all you PID people out there! This interactive session will enable you to tell us what you think of the changes so far, what else you’d like us to focus on, and how you’d like to get involved in the PID Forum 2.0.

[ slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4439098  ] Among research funders, there is increasing interest in a more in depth understanding of both the effects of funded research projects and the performance of funding instruments. Although research funding organisations collect a lot of information about research projects they fund, it is often difficult to re-use this information for strategic decision making. Challenges in collecting good quality, reusable data are multiple and intertwined. They include researchers failing to register their outputs on funders’ systems, name ambiguities of both people and institutions, and the use of a wide range of metadata practices. Together, these information challenges undermine funders’ ability to systematically assess the outcomes of funded research.  

In this session, we present a ‘holistic’ PID strategy to improve the Dutch Research Council’s (NWO) capacity to analyze the effects of the research it funds. In this strategy, developed together with SURF (Cooperative for ICT in Dutch education and research), we propose implementation of persistent identifiers in NWO’s grant and reporting workflows, together with recommendations for national and international stakeholder engagement. Given the international nature of research and associated infrastructures, it is particularly important to ensure that national efforts are also well coordinated internationally.

As funders have occupied attention space at PIDapalooza since its inception, our aim is to join this tradition and call on PID-engaged and PID-curious funders to join our session. We invite comment and critique on the NWO PID strategy, and ideas about ways in which funders can work together to help shape the PID ecosystem.