Simon Porter
Simon Porter is VP of Research Futures at Digital Science and a current ORCID Board member. Based in the UK, he has spent the last decade advocating for "Research Information Citizenship", the shared responsibility of institutions, infrastructure providers, publishers, and researchers to maintain a genuinely open research ecosystem. His recent work focuses on measuring open infrastructure maturity through global PID benchmarking reports.
Session
In 2024, Australia launched its National Persistent Identifier (PID) Strategy to accelerate research quality, efficiency, and impact through the universal use of connected PIDs. To measure this progress, the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) commissioned Digital Science to develop a national benchmarking framework. This presentation shares key findings from the resulting Australian National PID Benchmarking Toolkit, which reveals a "mixed score card" for the nation's research ecosystem.
While Australia demonstrates world-leading ORCID adoption for publications, significant gaps remain. Australian researchers trail their European peers in data citation practices , and PID use for non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) is lacking. We will discuss the report's 23 recommendations , including mandatory ORCID implementation, new dissertation policies, and treating institutions as publishers. Finally, we will introduce the open-source toolkit—comprising analysis and runnable code —as a scalable model for other nations to track their PID strategies.