Sven Lieber; Poster
Persistent identifiers are designed to provide stable references to entities and to keep knowledge connected across systems, yet in practice there may be justified restrictions on which data can be publicly exposed. This creates a tension between persistence, transparency, and access control.
In the MetaBelgica project, four Belgian Federal Scientific Institutes collaboratively manage and connect cultural heritage reference data across institutional boundaries in an internal Wikibase instance. This talk presents two complementary perspectives. First, it shows how an off-the-shelf PID infrastructure can be realised by combining Wikibase with its stable entity identifiers and built-in mechanisms for handling change, with Archival Resource Key (ARK) identifiers as resolvable external identifiers.
Second, it reflects on how this approach is adapted in a setting with restricted data, where only selected entities and properties are exposed while internal metadata remains hidden. This highlights practical design choices around identifier resolution and access control.
Yvonne Campfens; Poster
Independent, not-for-profit, and community-led — OA Switchboard is a collaborative solution built to simplify the sharing of scholarly communications metadata among publishers, institutions, and funders. It is built by and for the people who use it, and is leveraged with existing PID’s, such as DOI, ORCID, and ROR.
The standardized protocol allows for the transparent exchange of data about (OA) publications, designed to operate and integrate with all stakeholder systems. It eases the administrative burden of maintaining many-to-many relationships and It reduces the manual volume of information exchange.
An upstream (publisher) and downstream (library) case study will illustrate this.
Kristi Holmes; Poster
Institutions face growing expectations to demonstrate the reach, influence, and value of their research. Persistent identifiers (e.g., ORCIDs, RORs, DOIs) form an essential, interconnected infrastructure that enables accurate attribution, interoperability, and machine‑actionable insight across research systems. PID metadata allow institutions to reliably connect people, organizations, and outputs, supporting richer impact narratives and reducing administrative burden.
This session presents a focused framework for catalyzing PID adoption by empowering campus PID champions who bridge local workflows, departmental needs, and institutional strategy. Drawing on community insights from various PID initiatives, we highlight practical steps to strengthen cross-unit collaboration, integrate PIDs into existing systems, and improve research information quality.
Attendees will learn how to identify, activate, and support PID champions; integrate PIDs into workflows; and craft stronger institutional impact stories grounded in high‑quality, connected metadata.
Hussein Sabrie; Poster
Is your research archive visible beyond your institution or disconnected from the global scholarly system?
In many emerging research ecosystems, valuable scholarship remains difficult to discover, cite, and measure. Implemented by Somali Research and Education Network (SomaliREN), the Somali Research and Education Repository (SORER) demonstrates how persistent identifiers (PIDs) can transform local archives into globally connected knowledge platforms.
By integrating DOIs, ORCID iDs, and community-driven repository practices, SomaliREN has connected nearly 1,000 Somali research publications to international discovery systems. Beyond technology, this approach combined structured training and institutional engagement to ensure sustainable adoption.
You will explore how phased PID implementation and researcher awareness programmes strengthened research visibility, and how connecting local scholarship to global infrastructures enhances citation potential, collaboration opportunities, and research credibility.
If you aim to move from isolated archives to globally discoverable knowledge, this session offers a practical, replicable model for keeping knowledge connected.
Tristan Kuehn; Poster
Defining “a Canadian dataset” and identifying entities that satisfy that definition is a surprisingly tricky problem, but the PID ecosystem comes together to provide a solution. Lunaris is a national data discovery service that aims to index metadata describing every Canadian dataset and ensure that those datasets are as easily discoverable as possible. In this session you will learn how Lunaris combines the metadata available from DataCite, ROR, and ORCID to isolate Canadian datasets from a sea of other research objects. We will focus on our mandate of harvesting Canadian datasets, but you will learn how to combine the PID metadata available from these services’ APIs to identify whatever subset of research entities you may care about. You will see a concrete example of how complete PID metadata allows the audience of research outputs to expand beyond what their creators could have initially envisioned.
Kamani Perera; Poster
The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management Sri Lanka (CIPM), widely recognized as the Nation’s Leader in Human Resource Management (HRM), plays a significant role in advancing professional education, training, and research in Sri Lanka. As part of its commitment to strengthening the national HR research ecosystem, CIPM launched the CIPM Research Nexus in 2025 to serve as a centralized digital repository for preserving and disseminating its scholarly outputs. The repository consolidates diverse research collections, including electronic theses and dissertations, industrial case studies, international research symposium proceedings, research presentations, the Journal of HRM Perspectives, national research project monographs, and an open-access HRM knowledge repository. Although the CIPM Research Nexus is still at an early stage of development, the adoption of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) including ORCID for researchers, DOI for publications, and ROR for institutional identification should strengthen to enhance research visibility, discoverability, and credibility.
Till Bey; Poster
You too might have seen the need to collect information on research groups, partner companies and consortia that come in all kinds of shapes. Existing PIDs for organizations, however, focus mainly on stable academic entities. Is it possible to adapt existing PIDs for this purpose or do we need to come up with new ones? Come to find out about PIDs you didn't even know existed, and get ready for some PID "hacking". You will learn about LEIs and SWHIDs, think about the nature of collaborations, and get creative with PIDs!
Patrick Danowski; Poster
Have you ever encountered publisher names in your data and planned to normalize them? In such cases, you’ll likely face the challenge of dealing with multiple names for a single publisher. Many publishers have distinct brands or imprints that they use, and in some instances, these brands were once independent publishers that were acquired. Therefore you also need information when the merger er happened. To complicate matters further, there are cases where individual brands or imprints are sold, resulting in a change in the publisher.
Current PIDs for organizations like, for example, ROR or the GND do not support this type of connection over time, so what’s the best PID for a publisher?
In the session, you will learn how we solved the problem in the case of academic publishers for the Open Access Monitor Austria and why we didn’t see the need for a new PID.
Toby Steiner; Poster
Open access (OA) is rapidly becoming the dominant model for scholarly book publishing, creating an urgent need for open, standard-compliant metadata and persistent identifiers (PIDs) across workflows, library systems, and preservation infrastructures. This presentation reports findings from a recent landscape study reviewing international metadata standards for OA books and chapters, with a focus on small-to-medium-sized publishers. The study highlights persistent challenges in adopting PIDs to improve discoverability of long-form scholarship, and proposes practical steps to strengthen metadata practices across the publishing lifecycle. It then introduces a format-agnostic metadata framework aligned with international recommendations and open science principles, designed to be robust yet adaptable. Finally, the talk demonstrates how Thoth Open Metadata operationalises this framework through an open platform enabling FAIR, CC0 metadata creation, multi-format exports, automated dissemination, DOI registration, and integration across the scholarly communication ecosystem and services broadly.
Karsten Peters-von Gehlen, Ivonne Anders; Poster
STAC (Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog) has become a widely adopted standard for organizing and discovering spatio-temporal data. But when data moves across systems, infrastructures, and communities, discoverability alone is not enough.
At DKRZ, STAC is being taken one step further by treating STAC objects as FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs). This makes them persistent, uniquely identifiable, and machine-actionable, and they can be reliably used across distributed environments.
This lightning talk shows how STAC can evolve from a descriptive standard into a building block of PID-based data infrastructures. You will hear how this approach is being implemented in practice, what challenges arise, and other STAC providers can adopt it.
The goal is clear: move from identifying datasets to enabling actionable data objects and contribute to a more connected and interoperable data ecosystem.
Shelby Thaysen, John Aspler, Julia Gilmore; Poster
Do you increasingly get requests from repository teams who want to register DOIs so they can meet growing demand from researchers and enhance the discovery and reuse of scholarly outputs in their repository? In this session, you’ll learn how the developers of Scholaris, a new institutional repository service in Canada built on DSpace, developed a scalable, community-informed model for delivering PID services and support to subscribing institutions. You’ll discover how the Scholaris team leveraged the DataCite API within DSpace, established effective community partnerships to offer resources and build capacity, and scoped their service model. You’ll also hear recommended strategies and key considerations for increasing DOI adoption across your repository community.
Ils De Bal, Pascale Dengis; Poster
In this session you will learn how we -at FRIS- use PIDs, how we make the use of it mandatory but we also like to challenge you with the difficulties we face and we very much like to learn from your solutions. Which PID do you use for research infrastructures? How do you handle if there is a different value given for the same object and within the same PID authority?
And we will show how we use pids as a tool to build Golden Records which are used for research reporting for Flanders' most important funder.
Ishwar Chandramouliswaran; Poster
Learn how NIH aims to improve the findability and transparency of research outputs by expanding the use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) and standardized metadata to better connect researchers, funding, and research outputs.