Business Plan for Sustaining the THOR Federated PID Infrastructure and Services

This interim report outlines the considerations of sustainability of the THOR project − an EU-funded project seeking to establish a sustainable international e-infrastructure for persistent identifiers. It reviews the initial business plan from the project’s proposal for continued relevance, considers the sustainability activities of DataCite and ORCID as key THOR infrastructural partners, and provides a set of open questions to guide the project’s future work. The final report will ultimately result in a business strategy for THOR outputs.