Matt Buys
Matt Buys is Executive Director of DataCite, a global non-profit organization providing persistent identifier (PID) infrastructure to support open and connected research. He leads the organization’s strategy across community governance, services, and operations, with a focus on strengthening trusted, sustainable, and community-driven scholarly infrastructure serving stakeholders in over 65 countries. 
With over 15 years of experience in the research and scholarly communications ecosystem, Matthew has worked closely with institutions, funders, and international partners to advance open science practices and collaborative infrastructure. 
He is also an active contributor to governance in the open research landscape, serving as Board Chair of the Center for Open Science, Vice Chair of the DOI Foundation, and a board member of FORCE11, supporting global efforts to promote openness, persistence, and trust in research.
Sessions
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.
In the AI era, the explosive growth of science and technology resources and interdisciplinary convergence have posed unprecedented challenges to knowledge infrastructure. Ensuring that massive science and technology resources are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR principles) on a global scale has become a central issue in the development of open science. As the "digital ID card" for digital objects, Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) serve as the critical technical foundation for connecting fragmented knowledge and building a trustworthy research ecosystem.
In this workshop focuses on the opportunities and challenges of PID infrastructure in the AI era, exploring how persistent identifiers empower artificial intelligence to understand and connect scientific knowledge. Representatives from DataCite, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese National Space Data Center and Africa PID Alliance are invited to share practices across different identifier systems and regions
Connecting digital objects across the data repository landscape is critical for ensuring that open data are discovered and reused. Global adoption of common PIDs across repositories facilitates broad cross-repository discoverability, enables impact assessment and researcher credit, and supports compliance monitoring by funders and institutions. The NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative brings seven generalist repositories together - working in a “coopetition” model - with a key objective to connect digital objects by enhancing dataset metadata quality, completeness, and consistency. Over the past 4 years GREI repositories have developed and implemented a common metadata recommendation that relies heavily on PIDs including DataCite DOIs, ORCID, and ROR. This presentation will showcase examples of GREI repository PID implementation, use cases, and repository best practices, as well as the impact of PID-based collaborations with DataCite, ROR, and NLM, and the value of common PIDs for author, affiliation, and funding metadata in better connecting data repositories.