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Jonathan Clark

Jonathan Clark is the Managing Agent for the DOI Foundation which is a not-for-profit membership organisation that manages the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and is the registration authority for the ISO standard (ISO 26324). The DOI system provides a technical and social infrastructure for the registration and use of persistent interoperable identifiers called DOIs. Jonathan also works as an independent advisor on strategy and innovation. Prior to this he was at Elsevier for 20 years in various positions in publishing, marketing and technology. He holds a BSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Jonathan was Chair and Director of the DOI Foundation from 2005-2010.

New Co-chairs
Laure Haak has decided to step down after 10 years (!) as co-chair of the PID Interest Group. Please join me in thanking Laure for her valuable contributions both to this Group and to RDA over the years. It’s been a pleasure and an honour to have worked with her as co-chair. Thank you. Laure isn’t leaving RDA […]
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Date Modified: February 10, 2024
Equity and Inclusion: universal access to PIDs
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 […]
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Jonathan Clark
Date Modified: June 8, 2023
Topics for the PID IG Session at the next Plenary at IDW
It’s that time again, the deadline for the submission of a proposal for the next Plneary is coming up fast Please let us know if you have topics that you would like hear more about or any topics that you would like to contribute yourself  with best wishes Adrian, Jonathan and Laure     
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Jonathan Clark
Date Modified: May 31, 2023
PID Infrastructure: What makes open open?
Collaborative session notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lyUJYiIT4kF21UoOJFrpYEkBNX0dLrLzo6hQ…   The meeting will take the form of a free-ranging panel discussion with brief opening words, followed by a facilitated discussion Intro to PID IG for newcomers (Jonathan Clark) POSI (speaker to be confirmed) IOI (Kaitlin Thaney) Review of Decentralised approaches and intrinsic identifiers (Larry Lannom) Discussion: What does this all mean […]
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Jonathan Clark
Date Modified: March 2, 2022
P19 Proposal for session on central/decentral and open infrastructure
Hello everyone The deadline for submission of a proposal for the next RDA Plenary is fast approaching We are planning a session around centralised / decentralised / disstrubuted approaches to PID design and the impact on open infrastructure – i.e. what makes “open” open? We would like to ask for your (very swift!) feedbasck on this plan and […]
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Jonathan Clark
Date Modified: February 22, 2022
All About Persistence
Collaborative session notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wyGV4T18e2IiVDghGux_NdWOTvdDyYXtI76pmbKirl8/edit?usp=sharing   Introduction to PID IG for newcomers (Jonathan Clark) 5 minutes Introduction to the meeting – why persistence and why now? (Jonathan Clark) 5 minutes Expert Panel (speakers to be confirmed) 30 minutes  Discussion (including breakouts if possible) 40 minutes  Closing remarks (Jonathan Clark) 10 minutes    Applicable Pathways The FAIR Agenda, Data Infrastructures – Organisational […]
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Jonathan Clark
Date Modified: August 7, 2021
New co-chair needed for this Interest Group!
Hello PID IG  Last year Laurel Haak stood down as co-chair of this Interest Group. We’d like to thank Laurel for all the work she did in founding the IG and leading its activities over the years. Adrian Burton and I will now commence a process between now and the next Plenary in April to enlist […]
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Jonathan Clark
Date Modified: January 21, 2021
Proposal submitted for virtual P17
Just a quick note to say we that we submiited a proposal for a PID IG breakout at the upcoming virtual P17 Consistent with our theme of (global) inclusivity, I indicated we were very willing to run duplicate sessions at different times to accomodate wider geographic engagement  Here is the proposed agenda: Introduction to PID IG for newcomers (Jonathan […]
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Jonathan Clark
Date Modified: January 21, 2021