This is sent from the Pidapalooza event in Reykjavik, Iceland, and is a short collection of notable things I learnt or which attracted my attention.
Firstly, what IS PIDapalooza[1]? Well, it’s all about persistent identifiers, but don’t let that put you off! Another way of putting it is that it’s a way of finding things scientific on the Web. Not just publications, but conferences, social media, teaching, research datasets, infrastructure, grants, organizations, instruments, scientific objects and samples and no doubt much more. These (will) live in an inter-connected eco-system, and so the idea goes, will become an integral part of how a scientist accumulates and disseminates information nowadays. Yes, the conference itself has its own PID: 10.5438/11.0001 and the individual talks will also appear as both a collection and with their own PID in the near future.
There are lots more I have learnt which I need to fix/enhance/address in our own experiments in the use of PIDs in chemistry, so I have better get on with it now!
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The date and location of the second Pidapalooza conference has been announced (22-23 January, 2018) in Girona, Spain.