PIDfest 26

Globally adopted persistent identifier infrastructures such as Crossref, DataCite, and the Research Organization Registry (ROR) are critical to a connected research ecosystem. However, sustaining these shared services requires more than technical standards. It depends on clear operational models, shared principles, and coordinated and strategic efforts to leverage, connect, and build upon existing solutions.

This presentation focuses on the practical realities of sustaining open research infrastructure. Drawing on experience from Crossref, DataCite and ROR, we highlight how community governance, transparent operations, and funding models support long-term resilience,

argue for strengthening and connecting existing infrastructure, and share lessons on how organizations can work together to build a more coherent, sustainable ecosystem that supports global research.

Have you ever suggested an addition or update to ROR and wondered how the proposed changes got turned into an actual ROR record? Or have you wanted to suggest a change but weren’t sure how to proceed? If you’ve ever been curious to learn more about how the ROR registry is maintained, this interactive workshop will take you inside the entire process and give you a newfound appreciation for the humans, machines, and mechanisms that make it all possible.

Whether you produce, maintain, analyze, or integrate DataCite DOI metadata, you have probably experienced challenges with keeping it up to date, navigating gaps and inconsistencies in metadata properties and practices, or curating metadata for specific applications. While DataCite DOIs enable connectivity and interoperability, enhancing data quality and efficiencies across systems and workflows, the metadata associated with them still requires ongoing maintenance that can only be performed by original creators or in isolated applications.

A collaboration between DataCite and COMET is advancing innovative technical and community-based approaches to improving PID metadata for everyone and at scale, currently focused on DataCite DOIs but broadly applicable across the ecosystem.

If you’ve ever wished for a better way to improve DataCite metadata or PID metadata in general, this session will present a concrete path forward, showing examples of metadata enrichment processes and tools developed through the collaboration.