National PID Infrastructure Strategy for Open Research: the view from Down Under

Australia (also known as “Down Under”) is often used by tech companies to test new technologies and products, since it is relatively affluent, cohesive, and manageable in size.  Perhaps that makes it a good place to test national approaches to infrastructure that support open research, and the National Research Infrastructure Strategy has been a two decade experiment in applying leading edge technologies at national scale to support leading edge research.

The establishment in 2019 of the Australian Research Data Commons was the latest development in this 20 year strategy.  The ARDC conducted a review of previous approaches to providing PID services and has issued a new PID policy, strategy, and portfolio of PID services.  In this talk we cover why we think PIDs are essential to leading edge research, which PIDs we consider essential to the portfolio, and how we evolve our delivery.