Desirable Characteristics of PIDs and PID Systems: Developing a NISO PID Standard

PIDs have evolved from helpful tools to essential research infrastructure, underpinning discovery, transparency, and accountability across the global scholarly ecosystem. In the United States, broad community adoption, combined with increasing federal funder requirements, has created a need for shared guidance and clear, consistent standards. Because PID systems have matured into more common research infrastructure, the group has been able to develop a standard based on the collected experience of PID providers and users. You’ll discover how this effort builds on foundational work from the Research Data Alliance National PID Strategies Interest Group, the U.S.-focused national PID strategy report organized by the Open Research Funders Group (ORFG), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) subcommittee on identification report, among other documents. Together, these efforts aim to ensure that PIDs are reliable, interoperable, and durable components of the research enterprise. After this session, you’ll have: - A set of normative characteristics for PIDs being used in scholarly communication and research. - An understanding about the community process that went into developing this NISO standard. - Ideas for how you might use these characteristics in developing and using PID systems.