Ed Pentz
Ed Pentz became Crossref’s first Executive Director when the organization was founded in 2000 and manages all aspects of the organization to ensure that it fulfills its mission to make research outputs easy to find, cite, link and assess. Prior to joining Crossref, Ed held electronic publishing, editorial and sales positions at Harcourt Brace in the US and UK and managed the launch of Academic Press’s first online journal, the Journal of Molecular Biology, in 1995. Ed lives in Oxford, UK with his wife and two cats.
Session
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.