Persistent Identifiers, or PIDs, link people, organizations, and things together in a way they can be found, identified, referenced, and correctly credited. Not only that, the scholarly infrastructures that provide and connect those PIDs in a machine-readable way allow us to accurately record and track the provenance of each of those entities, which can help ensure transparency and trustworthiness of the scholarly record they comprise.
This is why ORCID considers partnerships with our peer PID and scholarly infrastructure providers of the utmost importance. We strive to collaborate with each of them in ways that ensure the success of our mutual endeavors.
DataCite: makes research more effective by connecting research outputs and resources. They support the creation and management of DOIs and metadata records, enhance research workflows with service integration, and enable the discovery and reuse of research outputs and resources.
Research Organization Registry (ROR): a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations. ROR makes it easy for anyone or any system to disambiguate institution names and connect research organizations to researchers and research outputs.
Crossref: runs open infrastructure to link research objects, entities, and actions, creating a lasting and reusable scholarly record. As a not-for-profit with over 20,000 members in 160 countries, they drive metadata exchange and support nearly two billion monthly API queries, facilitating global research communication.