2026-10-28 –, LUMC01
PIDs connect everything together, which requires significant collaboration across all research sectors and stakeholders. Ultimately, local resources and policies are required for a collaborative response to PIDs, which typically takes place at the regional or national levels - even though PIDs are essentially international endeavors. Without these national approaches, PIDs remain difficult to implement and scattershot in their adoption. As countries continue to develop and implement National PID Strategies at varying speeds and with varying levels of sophistication and community buy-in, this session offers a timely opportunity to reassess the global landscape and reflect on collective progress. There are many drivers of PID adoption and implementation globally - from the integration of PIDs into funder systems to the availability of resources in a given language, as just a couple of endless possible examples. Each national strategy approaches drivers differently, depending on their context and resources - how does your region approach PIDs?
Have you ever wondered how people in different regions - speaking different languages - are promoting, adopting, and implementing PIDs around the world? PIDs connect everything together, which requires significant collaboration across all research sectors and stakeholders. Ultimately, local resources and policies are required for a collaborative response to PIDs, which typically takes place at the regional or national levels - even though PIDs are essentially international endeavors. Without these national or regional approaches, PIDs remain difficult to implement and scattershot in their adoption. As countries continue to develop and implement National PID Strategies at varying speeds and with varying levels of sophistication and community buy-in, this session offers an opportunity to reassess the global landscape and reflect on collective progress.
In this session, you will hear a structured overview of recent developments in national PID strategies around the world, highlighting trends, challenges, and lessons learned. A particular focus will be given to three perspectives from Canada, Australia, and Czechia. We will each outline the current state of the PID strategy in our own national contexts, including policy drivers, governance structures, implementation progress, and key challenges encountered.
You will learn about the barriers and issues that countries have faced when developing a strategy, and how and why some have progressed faster than others.
Together, these case studies will illustrate diverse approaches to coordination, stakeholder engagement, and integration of PID services within research ecosystems.
John Aspler graduated from McGill University with a PhD in Neuroscience. Although originally interested in music cognition, his exposure to a stream of problematic neuroscience-related news publications both cultivated and cemented in him an interest in improving public scientific literacy. John pursued his research at McGill University and the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit, where he worked on several projects about the media discourse surrounding people with neurodevelopmental disabilities (e.g., fetal alcohol spectrum disorder). He is also Manager, Canadian Persistent Identifier Community / Gestionnaire, Communauté canadienne des identifiants pérennes at CRKN-RCDR.
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Product Manager, Identifier Services, ARDC
PID Nerd
Hana Heringová leads the National Centre for Persistent Identifiers, which has been operating at the National Library of Technology in Prague, Czechia, since 2023. She is a co-chair of the National PIDs Strategy Interest Group under the Research Data Alliance and a member of DataCite's Community Engagement Steering Group.