2026-10-27 –, LUMC05
What are the catalysts for membership growth in PID communities? Are you engaging with a new or emerging group of stakeholders that are still learning about PIDs? Speakers from Canada and the United States will discuss how national government policies on research integrity and security, organizational Open Access initiatives, and other open science efforts have provided opportunities to expand PID community engagement and adoption from early adopters (like libraries and publishers) to new stakeholders learning about PIDs (like research administrators and funders). After a brief presentation, participants in this session will engage in small group discussion to identify opportunities to increase PID awareness and adoption, and share ideas on engaging new stakeholders. The session will conclude with collective reflections, offering practical insights into promoting PID adoption and strengthening global research communities.
What are the catalysts for membership growth in PID communities? Are you engaging with a new or emerging group of stakeholders that are still learning about PIDs? Speakers from Canada and the United States will highlight how Persistent Identifier related policies, such as national government policies on research integrity and security, organizational Open Access initiative, and other strategic efforts, have provided opportunities to expand PID community engagement from early adopters to new stakeholders learning about PIDs. For example, research administrators managing grants and awards at universities and colleges are increasingly required to understand the use of PIDs in the research ecosystem to assist researchers in fulfilling funding requirements, or higher education administrators who are learning about the importance of PIDs to make their researchers and research much more visible and accessible. These new and emerging PID stakeholders want to know how PIDs impact their day-to-day work, as well as how PIDs best serve their researchers and their entire organization.
We will discuss our approaches and ideas on how we have worked with new and emerging stakeholders in our community - but then we want to hear from you. After a brief presentation, you will be randomly grouped together to discuss policies and/or initiatives that are affecting your PID communities, identify opportunities to increase PID awareness and growth in PID adoption, and share ideas on engaging new stakeholders. We will provide questions to guide the group discussion. Then, all participants will reconvene to share ideas, reflections, and insights.
You will learn about the different policies and initiatives positively affecting PID communities worldwide. You will also gain insight into how to both promote PIDs and engage with new and emerging stakeholders learning about PIDs for the first time.
This session will be of interest to PID community leads, research infrastructure providers, and librarians and other research organization staff learning about how to engage with new stakeholders.
Nikolas Lamarre is the Canadian Persistent Identifier Community Officer at the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). He holds a CILIP-accredited MSc in Book History and Material Culture from the University of Edinburgh, and is currently pursuing an M.Ed. in Educational Technology and Design at the University of Saskatchewan. At CRKN, he actively supports the ORCID-CA and DataCite Canada consortia by promoting PID adoption, developing community resources, and improving metadata practices to enhance the discoverability and use of cultural heritage and scholarly resources. https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1891-2837
Sheila Rabun has worked in the academic library field since 2010, with a focus on digital workflows, agile project management, communicating technical information to diverse audiences, and advocating for interoperability in cultural heritage, research, and scholarly communication ecosystems. In her current role at Lyrasis, Sheila manages the ORCID US Community and the Lyrasis DataCite US Community, working with non-profit organizations across the US to leverage open persistent identifiers and shared open standards to make research and scholarly content more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable).
Kaela Ramhit serves currently as the ORCID US Community Program Specialist at Lyrasis. In this role, she supports ORCID US Community member organizations, answering questions on the technical aspects of ORCID, and in supporting ORCID outreach and education. Kaela has presented at multiple events and conferences, to peers, and facilitated services to students on best practices for creating accessible material. She has worked previously as a member of the University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries, and in public libraries. Her journey with PIDs has motivated her to grow further in expertise to better serve the global research community.