Natasha Simons is Director, National Coordination, with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). Based in Brisbane, Australia, Natasha drives national-scale initiatives and projects that build world class data infrastructure for researchers and that contribute to the ARDC’s new strategic approach of building thematic research data commons. She collaborates internationally, particularly through the Research Data Alliance, to solve common challenges and improve data infrastructure, policies, skills, and practices. Natasha is co-chair of the RDA Data Policy Standardisation & Implementation Interest Group and the RDA National PID Strategies IG.
Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to welcome Clifford Tatum from SURF in the Netherlands as our new co-chair joining myself, John Aspler, Hana Heringova and Veronique Stoll. Over the past several years, Clifford’s work on PIDs has focused on moving from individual PID services toward coordinated, PID-enabled research information infrastructure. At SURF, he worked on […]
Dear colleagues, RDA Plenary 27 in London is fast approaching! Co-chairs have met and updated the agenda and speakers for our session, entitled: The New Era of National PID Strategies: From Vision to Reality Meeting agenda Welcome and introduction to the IG (5 mins) New case study analysis and updates to National PID Strategies Guide […]
Dear Colleagues, Following our recent call for a new co-chair following Christopher Brown’s departure from Jisc, I am delighted to welcome Veronique Stoll as the new co-chair of the National PID Strategies IG. Veronique leads Recherche Data Gouv, France’s national research data infrastructure, providing a sovereign platform for the deposit, publication, discovery, and reuse of […]
This article from the Data Science Journal (published 10 August) reports key findings from the first nationwide Survey on the need for and use of Persistent Identifiers at Research and Infrastructure Organizations in Germany.
Dear Colleagues, One of our IG co-chairs, Christopher Brown, has decided to stand down from his role because he left Jisc UK, the organisation he was representing. Chris and I worked closely together – along with Daniel Bangert and Shawna Sadler – to form the initial National PID Strategies Working Group, collect case studies and […]
Dear Colleagues, The National PID Strategies IG has had its session proposal accepted for the RDA Plenary 27 in London, UK. The topic is “The New Era of National PID Strategies: From Vision to Reality”. The session objectives and meeting agenda can be found here. We are now calling for any and all last […]
Dear RDA Colleagues, In the interests of sharing updates, here are two recent documents from the Australian National PID Strategy implementation now available on Zenodo: 2026 National PID Action Plan 2025 Year in Review: 2025 National PID Action Plan Context: Australian National PID Strategy (released Feb 2024) Best regards, Natasha Natasha Simons Director, National Coordination [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0635-1998 ardc.edu.au […]
Dear PID IG members, You’re very welcome to join us at the National PID Strategies IG session during International Data Week and RDA Plenary 25. Our session is on Monday 13 October in the second breakout (4.30pm – 6.00pm AEST). Learn from case study lightning talks about National PID Strategies in: France Ireland Germany Latin […]
Hi everyone, Please join us at the National PID Strategies IG session during International Data Week and RDA Plenary 25. Our session is on Monday 13 October in the second breakout (4.30pm – 6.00pm AEST). Learn from case study lightning talks about National PID Strategies in: France Ireland Germany Latin America Australia Digital Science Contribute […]
Dear RDA National PID Strategies IG members, To demonstrate the value of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) for science policy, the RDA has developed a series of white papers based on workshops in May 2025. The workshops focused on three key policy areas: National Persistent Identifier (PID) Strategies Journal Research Data Policy Frameworks Research Evaluation […]
