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Group Session June 8, 2023

Equity and Inclusion: universal access to PIDs

Plenary: RDA 21st Plenary Meeting [part of International Data Week 2023], Salzburg, Austria

Submitted by
Jonathan Clark
Recording

Meeting objectives

 

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Persistent Identifiers are an essential building block of scholarly infrastructure. To many scholars they seem ubiquitous. And yet, there are many parts of the world and many communities that are still poorly served. How can we realise a truly global and connected research ecosystem?

The PID IG Co-Chairs believe that it starts with participation on an equitable and inclusive basis and providing access to knowledge for everyone involved.

The Africa PID Alliance is a new initiative that we would like to showcase in this session. It is a great example of how equity and accessibility can work in practice. UbuntuNet is an alliance of Eastern and South African National Research and Education Networks.

We would also like to draw everyone’s attention to see important global initiatives. Local Contexts supports Indigenous communities with tools that attribute cultural authority of heritage and data. Crossref, DataCite and ORCID all have programs to enable equitable access.

The objective is to bring a truly global perspectives on PIDs

Meeting presenters

Jonathan Clark

Meeting agenda

The meeting will be built around a series of presentations on global PID initiatives that focus on equity and accessibility, followed by a discussion on how best the RDA and specifically the PID IG can support these initiatives   

Introduction to PID IG for newcomers (Jonathan Clark) 
Update on PID IG / Community Cross Fertilisation Workshop (Jonathan Clark)

Focus on Africa [30 minutes]

  • Africa PID Alliance (Joy Owango)
  • African Open Science Platform (Muliano Wafula) 

Global Access Initiatives [25 minutes]

  • DataCite – Global Access Program (Helena Cousijn)
  • ORCID – Global Participation Program (Paloma Narin-Arraiza)

Open Discussion: how can we better support global initiatives? [25 minutes]

Target audience

The target audience covers a wide cross-section of the RDA community. Indeed, anyone who is engaged in producing, storing, management and preservation of data should care about PIDs. In practice, this meeting will appeal most to organisations that provide PID services to the international research community and organisations that implement or otherwise use PIDs

Short Group Status

The PID IG is the cross-pollination place for PID initiatives within and beyond RDA.

The pervasive use of persistent identifiers is seen as a foundational element in anchoring and referencing research data in an interoperable way. The purpose of the Persistent Identifier Interest Group is to synchronise identifier-related efforts, address important and emerging PID-related topics and coordinate activities, including appropriate RDA Working Groups, to support practical solutions for PID-related issues from the engaged communities.

The PID IG fosters working groups to address specific topics, and in particular to address and define emerging PID use cases in the domain of data, and how the research community would benefit from a portfolio of global open identifiers for persons, data objects, organizations, grants, etc. Where applicable the PID-IG collaborates with existing RDA working groups, or it establishes new working groups based on priority areas as identified at RDA plenaries.

Applicable Pathways

FAIR, CARE, TRUST - Evaluation and Policy
FAIR, CARE, TRUST - Adoption, Implementation, and Deployment
Data Infrastructures and Environments - Generalist

Avoid conflict with the following groups

National PID Strategies Interest Group
FAIR Digital Object Fabric IG