Jonathan Starr
Jonathan Starr is the Executive Director of the Open Source Endowment, a 501(c)(3) building a community-managed permanent endowment for critical open source infrastructure. He also directs SciOS and the Institute of Open Science Practices, where he coordinates researchers and technologists building sustainable infrastructure for open science. His work spans funding mechanisms, coordination systems, and the shared technical substrate connecting diverse scientific systems.
Session
PRSM is a knowledge graph connecting publications, repositories, people, and institutions into 28+ million relationships. It exists because persistent identifiers exist. DOIs, ORCIDs, ROR IDs, and package registries made it possible to link data across OpenAlex, GitHub, and ecosyste.ms into something no single system could produce alone: full research impact analysis across publications and code, ecosystem health scoring, champions discovery, and dependency chains traced to compiled binaries.
As AI agents begin generating research artifacts at machine speed, persistent identifiers become even more valuable. Every synthetic dataset, automated analysis, and machine-written codebase needs provenance, attribution, and traceability.
This talk utilizes a live portfolio analysis to demonstrate the power of today's PID infrastructure, explore why identifiers become even more essential as AI-generated artifacts enter the research ecosystem, and discuss what's needed for identifier infrastructure to scale to trillions of generative artifacts.