Kristi Holmes
Kristi Holmes, PhD, is a leader in knowledge management, FAIR data, and research impact at Northwestern University. She is Associate Dean for Knowledge Management and Strategy and Director of the Galter Health Sciences Library and Learning Center. She directs Informatics and Data Science within NUCATS and co‑leads its strategic management, and she serves as Chief of Knowledge Management in the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Her research focuses on improving information access, supporting data‑driven discovery, and addressing emerging issues in AI and research. She is dedicated to shared knowledge ecosystems and evidence‑based approaches that strengthen transparency, collaboration, and research impact across the scientific community.
Session
Connecting digital objects across the data repository landscape is critical for ensuring that open data are discovered and reused. Global adoption of common PIDs across repositories facilitates broad cross-repository discoverability, enables impact assessment and researcher credit, and supports compliance monitoring by funders and institutions. The NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative brings seven generalist repositories together - working in a “coopetition” model - with a key objective to connect digital objects by enhancing dataset metadata quality, completeness, and consistency. Over the past 4 years GREI repositories have developed and implemented a common metadata recommendation that relies heavily on PIDs including DataCite DOIs, ORCID, and ROR. This presentation will showcase examples of GREI repository PID implementation, use cases, and repository best practices, as well as the impact of PID-based collaborations with DataCite, ROR, and NLM, and the value of common PIDs for author, affiliation, and funding metadata in better connecting data repositories.