PIDfest 26

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.

PIDs are increasingly important for repository workflows. Primary challenges for PID integration into open-source repository platforms include the ability to coordinate many moving pieces globally and identifying who might be responsible for moving any given development forward. In this session, you will learn how PIDs can be used in repository platforms, and a case study example for how PID advocacy work is moving forward for DSpace, an open source, community-driven repository software used by thousands of organizations across the globe.