Jonathan Clark
Jonathan Clark is the Managing Agent for the DOI Foundation which is a not-for-profit membership organisation that manages the DOI System and is the registration authority for the ISO standard (ISO 26324).
Jonathan is one of the co-chairs of the Research Data Alliance Interest Group on Persistent Identifiers. When not doing something PID related, he works as an independent advisor on strategy and innovation. He is also a Guest Lecturer and External Examiner for two MBA programmes in the Netherlands. Prior to this Jonathan worked at Elsevier for 20 years in various positions in publishing, marketing and technology, and before that Shell Research. He holds a BSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Jonathan was Chair and Director of the DOI Foundation from 2004-2010. He lives mostly in Croatia.
Session
As PIDs become essential infrastructure for open research, funder compliance, and scholarly discovery, shared standards are more important than ever. In this session, you will learn how a National Information Standards Organization working group is turning community best practices into a consensus U.S. standard designed for global interoperability, for which many key systems are already largely compliant. This session offers a practical look at the core attributes of robust PIDs and PID systems—uniqueness, persistence, resolution, metadata, interoperability, governance, sustainability, security, and integrity—and the objective criteria behind them. You’ll get insight into the standards development process, leave with a clearer understanding of how these characteristics balance moving the field forward with real-world implementation, and learn how this emerging standard can help PID providers and users alike evaluate, strengthen, and future-proof this critical research infrastructure.