Highlights
- PIDapalooza was recently relaunched as PIDfest to bring Persistent Identifier organizations together again for the first in-person PID festival since 2020.
- ORCID presented in five sessions listed below.
- For a deeper dive on the sessions, we invite you to visit the links to PIDfest presentation slide decks, blogs on the infosite, and corresponding past webinars.
Last month, a handful of ORCID staff attended PIDfest, a festival of Persistent Identifiers, which took place at the National Library of Technology in Prague, Czech Republic. Previously, the PID community convened at PIDapalooza, which went virtual in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. PIDfest 2024 was the first time the festival brought PID organizations together in person since 2020.
In addition to presentations on the serious matters of PID infrastructure, ORCID hosted a table for making fun ORCID-themed friendship bracelets! We enjoyed connecting with the PID community and look forward to the next PIDfest.
“There was a marked difference in tone between the last time everyone met in person, and this year’s PIDfest,” said ORCID’s Director of Communications, Julie Petro. “Back then there was still a bit of uncertainty about how to best articulate the value of a PID infrastructure, and it seems like we were still working out how to help our wider community understand that adopting PIDs in their systems and processes could benefit them. A lot of it was still theoretical. This year it seems like the community has moved past that—everyone seems to understand the value of PIDs much better now, and the conversations seemed to center around how various PIDs are being used specifically, and what the plans are for the future.”
Below is a roundup of sessions hosted by ORCID staff with links to the presentations when available.
PID providers keynote: Delivering value to the research sector
The PIDfest keynote panel included ORCID Executive Director Chris Shillum and representatives from other PID providers to address how the community delivers value to the research sector. Other panelists included Jonathan Clark, DOI Foundation; Helena Cousijn, DataCite; Shawn Ross, ARDC; Natasha Simons, ARDC Chair; and Maria Gould, ROR/DataCite. Download the presentation here.
ORCID’s Multi-faceted Approach to Increasing Global Adoption
During this session by ORCID’s Grant Program Officer Lombe Tembo, she discussed what we have done over the past few years to build momentum for global uptake of ORCID and the revitalization of several founding partnerships to develop the Global Participation Fund (GPF). The GPF awards grants supporting the development of local expertise and communities of practice, and we have recently wrapped up our fourth round of awards.
Tembo also discussed developing new partnership models with organizations that have both local knowledge and resources, our new, re-tooled membership tiering model with an eye toward equity, and how we launched a new regional consortia model to allow smaller countries to benefit from communities of practice in their regions. Download the presentation here.
For more information about the GPF, visit the summary on our blog and watch the replay of our webinar featuring GPF Awardees: GPF Awardee Showcase: Awardees Share Insights.
We also recommend a perspective from recent awardee Kenya Libraries and Information Services Consortium (KLISC) on the ORCID blog: KLISC, a Global Participation Fund Awardee, Shares Highlights from Grant Cycle
Our GPF FAQ page is another great resource for answering questions about application.
How PIDs Demonstrate Identity and Why That’s Better for Research Integrity than Verification
In this session, ORCID’s Executive Director Chris Shillum, Director of Communications Julie Petro, and Product Director Tom Demeranville asked participants to reframe the issue of identity verification and consider a more robust way to uphold and improve research integrity in scholarly workflows: identity demonstration. Those might sound like the same thing, but there are key differences. They discussed how difficult it is to verify actual human beings in a global context. Other topics include how identity verification is a concept rooted in centralized, gatekeeper-based systems, while identity demonstration is built over time—like a reputation—bit by bit, with (ideally PID-enabled) validated data contributed by multiple sources. Download the presentation here.
Curious to learn more? Much of the same information from this session can be found in our recent blog ORCID’s Community Trust Network Aims to Elevate Trust and Integrity in Scholarly Record. Have more time? We invite you to watch the full replay of the corresponding webinar.
PIDifying Latin America
Ana Cardoso presented on the primary open PIDs used in research, as well as demonstrating how they are being used in the Latin America region and how, in combination, they can increase trust in research and the research infrastructure. She discussed the benefits of persistent identifiers used in Latin America and how their adoption contributes to open science and a more open and robust framework that strengthens the research ecosystem. She shared case studies and their benefits with the interoperability of the different open persistent identifiers. Download the presentation here.
For a deeper dive into our outreach activities in the region, visit the blogs, A Look at the Past to Strengthen ORCID’s Future in the Latin American and Caribbean Region and PIDs and Open Science: Building Community in Latin America.
ORCID was a presenting sponsor of PIDfest 2024, we anticipate collaborating in future events. This event helps PID providers continue to build the case for the importance of PIDs to the entire research community, and we look forward to what we can accomplish in years to come.