Tristan Kuehn
Tristan Kuehn is Product Lead, Discovery Services at the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. Tristan manages Lunaris, the Alliance's Canadian data discovery service; serves as technical lead for the DataCite Canada Consortium; and serves as staff liaison for the Alliance's Discovery and Metadata Expert Group.
Sessions
RAiD (Research Activity ID) is a persistent identifier for research projects, linking outputs, funding, and personnel. With humble beginnings in Australia, RAiD is moving quickly into its next phase of governance and operation at global scale.
This presentation introduces the PID community to the Global RAiD Operating Alliance, a strategic partnership between the RAiD Registration Authority (Australian Research Data Commons - ARDC) and the Registration Agencies (RAs) to scale and operate RAiD internationally. Partners include SURF Netherlands, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.
Members of the RAiD Operating Alliance, launched earlier in 2026, will discuss how they collaborate to guide and grow the RAiD system globally. They will detail how they work together to meet the needs of RAiD users and their plans for the future.
DataCite consortia provide access to DataCite services to organizations within their region or subject-based interest group. DataCite Consortium Leads have a lot of leeway to determine how consortia operate. What kinds of organizations are eligible to participate? How is the consortium funded? What kind of support does the consortium lead provide and how? In this Birds of a Feather session, representatives from existing or prospective Consortium Lead organizations will compare notes on how they think about these and any other questions of consortium management. Participants will have space to discuss any tricky problems they face, share success stories, and understand how DataCite consortia vary around the world. DataCite strives to foster venues for consortia to engage with each other, and this session will provide an important opportunity for consortium leads to share their points of view and strengthen a community of practice in person.
Should publishers of research outputs, awards, and other entities register DOIs with DataCite or Crossref? These registration agencies have their roots in different use cases for different entities - Crossref for journal publications, DataCite for datasets - but their capabilities and focuses increasingly overlap. Today, DataCite and Crossref both: operate globally, support identifying and describing a wide variety of resources (journals/articles, books/chapters, datasets, dissertations, grants/awards, peer reviews, preprints, reports, and standards), and support connection metadata to other kinds of PIDs. As communities develop National PID Strategies, it is becoming difficult to differentiate between DataCite and Crossref; what kind of grounded advice can strategies offer their communities? In this BoF session, you will be invited to present your perspective on this question, contribute to a shared international conversation about registering DOIs, and provide feedback about how DataCite and Crossref might distinguish themselves from one another.
The Research Activity Identifier (RAiD), a PID for Projects, was originally developed in Australia; other countries are now also beginning to implement and test national and regional RAiD services concretely: Canada, the Netherlands, and the US. This panel will provide updates from these three pilots, led by SURF in the Netherlands, Lyrasis and the San Diego Supercomputer Center in the United States, and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada and Canadian Research Knowledge Network in Canada. Panelists will share the current status of their RAiD pilots, including an overview of stakeholders involved, prominent use cases or workflows of focus, and plans for next steps.
RAiD (Research Activity Identifier) is a next-generation, ISO standard, persistent identifier designed to formally link all components of a research project - people, organisations, funding, instruments, and data - throughout the research lifecycle.
This presentation will detail how RAiD strengthens the Persistent Identifier (PID) ecosystem by acting as a central hub. Specifically, we will explore RAiD’s purpose-built metadata schema, which is optimised to capture the complex relationships inherent in research activities, moving beyond simple one-to-one connections.
We will also demonstrate how the RAiD API enables machine-to-machine retrieval of these rich connection graphs, transforming how PIDs are leveraged for attribution, reporting, and provenance tracking, thereby increasing the value and utility of existing PID investments for the community.