[Eril-l] NISO Approves Working Group to Develop a US National PID Strategy

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*Baltimore, MD—September 5, 2024*—Voting members of the National
Information Standards Organization (NISO) have approved the formation of a
Working Group to develop an ANSI/NISO standard for a United States national
PID strategy, which will increase the adoption of PIDs and provide critical
support to open research. NISO is currently seeking members from across the
information community, including representatives from federal agencies, PID
providers, academic libraries, publishers, and software providers, to join
the resulting Working Group.



Persistent identifiers, or PIDs, are a critical part of the infrastructure
supporting scholarly communications and open research. They support
research discovery and citations, allow users and systems to easily
identify authors and institutions and link them to research outputs, and
help ensure compliance with a growing number of government and funder
mandates advancing open scholarship. To date, however, approaches to
encouraging the adoption of PIDs and investment in PID infrastructure have
not been coordinated, and there is little guidance available on how best to
improve the implementation and efficacy of PIDs within the diverse spheres
of the US research landscape.

The Open Research Funders Group, building on work first begun by the
Research Data Alliance, released a report, “Developing a US National PID
Strategy,” in March 2024. The report highlighted the need for a strategy
that would build support for PIDs, increase their adoption, and help
stakeholders to incorporate them into workflows and systems more easily.
NISO’s Working Group will be dedicated to meeting these needs, developing a
standard advancing PIDs and open scholarship. It will outline the benefits
of PIDs, define desirable characteristics of shared PID systems, offer
strategies for evaluating and adopting PID infrastructure, and identify
gaps in current systems that call for the development of new identifiers.
The standard will benefit stakeholders across the research ecosystem by
streamlining interactions, reducing redundant efforts, and offering clear
guidance for adopting PIDs.

“The move toward open research, driven in part in the US by governmental
mandates like the Nelson Memo, makes it more important than ever to make it
easier for organizations, institutions, and researchers to adopt persistent
identifiers,” says Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Executive Director. “The
formation of the Working Group is an important step in achieving this goal
and supporting open scholarship.”

For more information or to volunteer to join the US National PID Strategy
Working Group, please contact nisohq at niso.org. (If volunteering, please
include one or two sentences expressing your interest.)

About NISO

Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster
discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through
collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional
communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire life cycle of information
standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq at niso.org.



NISO
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302

Baltimore, MD 21211

Phone: 301.654.2512
E-mail: nisohq at niso.org
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