Persistent identifiers (PIDs) promote the F of FAIR!
- CrossRef: Since 1999 has issued
>88,649,191 persistent DOIs on behalf
of scholarly and professional Journal publishers.
- DataCite: Founded in London in December 2009 to
support methods to locate, identify
and cite data and other research objects and has registered >10,000,861 DOIs.
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ORCID: Since October 2012, has issued >3,418,420 ORCID persistent identifiers
for researchers with associated Metadata
- 2017: extension to PIDs for institutions and instruments?
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What a persistent ID does: These three agencies issue
PIDs on request (to a publisher) and in exchange receive Metadata back (from the publisher) about the item.
- In 2015, ORCID+CrossRef+DataCite started to co-operate,
allowing:
- Auto-population of metadata from CrossRef and
DataCite into ORCID Record
- Researcher DataCite
profiles specifying metadata harvesting
- Exchange of metadata connecting Journal articles ⇔ data/other research objects ...
- EventData: retrieves and exposes the activity that occurs around research data objects and
brings to light links between publications and data, citations, software, reuse, documentation, etc.
- Rich searches of this superset
