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🔊 Call to host #PIDfest 2026!
The call for submitting Expressions of Interest (EoIs) to organise the PIDfest 2026 conference is open until 7 October 2024
https://www.pidfest.org/call-to-host-pidfest-2026
The call for submitting Expressions of Interest (EoIs) to organize the #PIDfest 2026 conference is now open! Turn in yours by October 7, 2024, to apply to host this international event on all things #PIDs & how they are critical to #OpenResearch infrastructure: https://www.pidfest.org/call-to-host-pidfest-2026
Is your organization leading #PID work at the national level? If so, would you be interested in hosting the 2026 #PIDfest - an international conference for PID users and leaders? Applications are invited by October 7 and will be reviewed by reps from ARDC and NTK, who hosted PIDfest 2024. For more information see https://www.pidfest.org/call-to-host-pidfest-2026
What's happening in the world of #PIDs? Check out this Scholarly Kitchen recap of #PIDfest from @tac_NISO, Phill Jones, & @alicemeadows & get the latest!
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/07/18/a-successful-start-to-a-new-festival-of-identifiers-pidfest-2024/
#PIDs #metadata #OpenResearch
Many interesting contributions at the #PIDfest conference in #Prague are now published in the Czech National Library of Technology's repository.
There were many exciting contributions and I can highly recommend them.
👉 https://shorturl.at/dbgTw
The first keynote "Why PID matters" provides an introduction to the topic of persistent identifiers from different perspectives.
📢 The contributions of the #PIDfest 2024 have been published.
đź‘€ Here you can find our contribution "It Takes More Than a Village: A National Network of Bottom-up PID Strategies in Germany"
presented by Frauke Ziedorn from the @tibhannover
➡️ https://doi.org/10.48813/ygsd-wh84
#PIDs #PIDNetwork #PID4NFDI #NFDI @HelmholtzOpenScienceOffice
Didn't make it to #PIDFest? You can find slides from PIDFest presentations in the Czech National Library of Technology's repository: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14391/3044
🤩 Absolutely inspired by the community's interest and engagement at #PIDfest in Prague 🇨🇿(organized by @ntkcz & @ARDC_AU)! Check out my blog for highlights and details on hosting the next edition! https://doi.org/10.5438/0xab-7✨
#PIDs #OpenScience #Metadata #OpenInfrastructure
The Navigation Fund’s #OpenScience Program.
From @inundata :
> We aim to support transformative ideas that will reshape the future of open science. Submit your ideas via our interest form! Learn more: https://www.navigation.org/grants/open-science
> we don’t have any citizenship/residency requirements.
Initial focus areas:
- Improving #DataInfrastructure
- Novel Publishing Models and Infrastructure: Shifting the Narrative
- Improving the #PersistentIdentifiers Ecosystem and Applications (#PIDFest was timely!)
Types of grants:
- Innovation, for Prototype Development and Implementation (up to $500k USD) and for Expert Gatherings (Working Groups) ($20k-$100k)
- Validation & Scaling ($500k-$2M)
- Growth ($1M-$5M)
We briefly summarized our impressions from the international conference on persistent identifiers (PIDs) - #PIDFest and took away many ideas and approaches for the PID Network Germany project.
Overall, the open and respectful atmosphere as well as the professional organization contributed to the fact that the Fest(ival) for PIDs was a complete success and left a lasting impression. Thanks to all contributors and organizers.
The Digital Object Container Identifier (DOCiD) is envisioned "to ensure indigenous knowledge and cultural heritage preservation" by tracking the lifecycle of an object while honoring a desire for data sovereignty.
presented by Joy Owango of the Africa PID Alliance (https://africapidalliance.org/) at #PIDFest
A concise maturity model for an organization's effective use of #PersistentIdentifiers ( #PIDs ), presented by Siobhann McCafferty and @pid_perth at #PIDFest:
Level 0: your metadata is unstructured. Effective PID use is impossible. 🙂
Level 1: your metadata *is* structured, in a way others recognize as relevant, and you do keep local identifiers. Effective PID use is now possible, but implausible.
Level 2: human beings get and apply PIDs to digital research entities. Effective PID use is plausible, but not probable.
Level 3: running software mints/binds/resolves PIDs to automatically use their structured metadata to do things. Effective PID use is probable, but not powerful.
Level 4: running institutional workflows -- systems of people plus software -- take advantage of PID minting, binding, and resolution. Effective PID use is powerful, but not presumed.
Level 5: PID-integrated workflows are the norm. Effective PID use is now presumed.
Siobhann McCafferty and @pid_perth spoke on #PersistentIdentifiers for Instruments at #PIDFest
These #PIDs are for physical *instances*, not e.g. instrument make-model catalog entries (cf. RRIDs (https://www.rrids.org/), e.g. https://n2t.net/rrid:SCR_000011).
Offered "best practices": use a DOI or a Handle, use the #PIDINST metadata schema (https://doi.org/10.15497/RDA00070), and use Handles for instrument calibration data. No formal recommendation offered re: schema for "calibration metadata record" or "configuration metadata record".
One expressed hope: #MachineLearning for instrument calibration via calibration metadata records for particular instruments.
Each DOI resolution costs five millipennies. The DOI Foundation facilitates 1.7B resolutions per month across >350M registered DOIs with seven part-time staff (~3 FTE equivalent) for a total operating cost under 1M USD per year.
presented at #PIDFest by Jonathan Clark of the DOI Foundation
Edit: I realized the DOI acronym might benefit from expansion; it means Digital Object Identifier (see https://doi.org for more), and it’s a notorious (connotation not intended!) kind of permalink for digital outputs of scientific research.
These folks know how to run a #PIDfest! Thank you to the amazing conference organizers at @ardc_au and the Czech National Technical Library, including Natasha Simons, Hana Heringová, Petra Cernohlávková, @m & Siobhan McCafferty. It was an amazing three days!
#PIDs #metadata
And David Shotton, whom I had the honour of meeting. Among other things, he supported the efforts to include OpenCitations features in OJS and was always willing to share his expertise. An obituary can be found here: https://mastodon.social/@opencitations@scicomm.xyz/112591944191899685. @MsPhelps paid tribute to his life and work in the session. Thank you for that, Bianca!
The closing session began by honouring two deceased members of our community. One was Sarah Jones, in whose honour a prize named after her has now been awarded: https://www.rd-alliance.org/the-sarah-jones-award/
The day was to busy to report from the #PIDfest. Today was mainly unconference.
Emerging #PIDs like for conference, and awards and prices were discussed in the #unconference part I attended. It was really interesting to hear about different use cases and requirements. There seems to be consensus, that those would be useful additions to the #OpenResearchInformation commons.
Had a great #pidfest After presenting a RAiD like workflow https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.25966051.v1, we got access to the demo version of the RAiD API. …so here is a demo with an actual RAiD workflow: https://www.overleaf.com/read/vnpvrdkbqswr#7f32a4 maybe the first RAid to Author and Author contribution statement demo? #overleaf #figshare #ORCid #RAiD
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