Rodrigo Roa López de Heredia
Executive Director of Data Observatory and signed the consortium agreements described in this proposal, so the material is first-hand rather than reported.
Session
Chile has no funder mandate requiring persistent identifiers. Adoption is happening anyway, driven by an intermediary institution rather than by top-down regulation. Data Observatory, a public-private-academic foundation, leads Chile's DataCite consortium. Its early members are not only universities: the Library of the National Congress now assigns DOIs to legislative and parliamentary documents, extending persistent identification beyond research data into the public record itself.
This session traces that path: how a national FAIR data strategy, a shared consortium, a national CODATA committee and a regional alliance (SURDATA) were assembled without a mandate and without the funding assumptions the global PID infrastructure takes for granted. We discuss what worked, what did not, and what the international PID community may be missing when it designs for contexts that already have mandates, budgets and institutional density.