2026-10-28 –, LUMC06
What are your favorite graphics or images demonstrating the value of PIDs? Have you created or found one that you love, or do you wish you knew how to create or find one? Let’s get together and share our favorite PID visuals, try generating some with AI tools or with pens and our own brain power, and explore what the ideal PID image would be. Does it communicate through metaphor, as in pictures of interconnected roads, plumbing, or natural waterways? Is it a network visualization generated from real data? Does it chart figures such as potential savings or increase in usage over time? Is it a PowerPoint slide with organizational logos on it connected by lines? In this workshop, you'll imagine, create, and share images that convey why persistent identifiers are so important, creating a public image library that everyone in the PID community can use.
What are your favorite graphics or images demonstrating the value of PIDs? Have you created or found one that you love, or do you wish you knew how to create or find one? Let’s get together and share our favorite PID visuals, try generating some with AI tools or with pens and our own brain power, and explore what the ideal PID image would be. Does it communicate through metaphor, as in pictures of interconnected roads, plumbing, or natural waterways? Is it a network visualization generated from real data? Does it chart figures such as potential savings or increase in usage over time? Is it a PowerPoint slide with organizational logos on it connected by lines? In this workshop, you'll imagine, create, and share images that convey why persistent identifiers are so important, creating a public image library that everyone in the PID community can use.
In the first 10 minutes of the session, you'll hear about some strategies already in use for communicating the value of PIDs through images. For the next 40 minutes, you'll engage in facilitated interactive exercises that will set the stage for discussion. First, you'll add a few sentences to a shared workspace describing what your ideal single image communicating the value of PIDs would be. Second, you'll add some of your favorite persistent identifier images, charts, graphs, slides, and GIFs: these might include images related to PIDs generally or images related to a particular PID. Third, you'll try generating your ideal PID image with the AI tool of your choice and add at least one such image to the shared workspace. Alternatively, you can draw your PID images on a flip chart and add a photograph to the shared workspace. Fourth, you'll help the group sort the images into named categories. Fifth and finally, you'll vote on your favorite images.
In the last 10 minutes of the session, you'll share your thoughts in the group discussion on such topics as what characteristics the most highly rated visuals share and what image to convey the value of PIDs you might try to create in the future.
Amanda French, ROR Technical Community Manager, is a well-known community manager and project director in the scholarly communication and digital humanities spheres. At Crossref, she works to encourage and support use of the Research Organization Registry (ROR).
Since 2020, Paul has served as DataCite’s outreach manager. In addition to his work in communications, he engages with the PID Network Germany project. Before joining DataCite, Paul was employed at the Helmholtz Open Science Office and various universities, where he contributed to the development of publication and data repositories. Paul holds an M.A. in North American Studies, Italian, and ethnology. As a committed advocate for Open Research, Paul aims to promote the concept of openness in scholarly communication.