Kickoff report

 The ODIN kickoff meeting provided an overview of the current persistent identifier discussion, as well as valuable input from key stakeholders to the ODIN project. Eleven presenters from a variety of stakeholder groups provided important perspectives, and the extensive discussion by all meeting participants further elaborated on key points. Based on the key scientific inputs, the following actions were identified:

i) Encourage discussion and collaboration between communities
ii) Address specific issues of working with large number of small heterogeneous datasets
iii) Identify main interoperability use cases and define their business value
iv) Encourage development of novel tools to track the reuse of data