Research Graphs: Getting the Best out of PIDs

Presentation at the Workshop "How identifiers can help you in Open Science" at the Open Science Fair 2019 in Porto, Portugal. 

Organisers & Speakers: Frances Madden - The British Library, Helena Cousijn - DataCite, Paolo Manghi - ISTI-CNR, Jessica Parland-von Essen - CSC, Ivo Wijnbergen.

WORKSHOP ABSTRACT

You are probably familiar with persistent identifiers like the DOI (digital object identifier) for publications and datasets. But do you know how they can make a researcher’s life easier? In this workshop you will explore the identifier landscape and we hope that afterwards you will engage others to use and benefit from persistent identifiers (PIDs). Persistent identifiers are at the heart of the FAIR principles and are becoming increasingly important in all research workflows. 
The organising European projects OpenAIRE, FREYA and FAIRsFAIR are all involved in strengthening the role that PIDs can play in linking researchers, research outputs, and research information. This is essential for open science, and as such PIDs are an instrument in good research practice. In this workshop you’ll hear about:

• Different types of PIDs such as DOIs, ORCID iDs and some emerging identifiers
• So-called research graphs, which make connections between research objects easy to understand, find and track; and why they aren’t perfect yet…
• The (new) questions PIDs and PID graphs allow you to answer
• How you can develop a PID policy for your institution
• Where to find information and training materials about PIDs
• As it is a workshop, we’ll move quickly from presentations to action. The attendees will discuss concrete benefits of PIDs for their community or organisation and start to design/draft an approach for how to promote PIDs. That means you’ll go home with a concrete action plan.