Matthew Buys, executive director, DataCite A presentation at Jisc's persistent identifiers and open access in the UK: the way forward online event on 25 June 2020.

1. June 25, 2020
A community
response to the
Jisc/UKRI PID
project and its goals

3. Community of Practice
Communities of Practice must have three features in common: a domain, a
community, and practice. The domain is what a group is interested in learning more
about or trying to resolve; the community is how this group will interact and share
resources related to the domain. With these two features in common, a
“Community of Interest” is born. When the members are also practitioners and use
their expertise in the community, and in service of the domain, there is a Community
of Practice.
• Domain: The role of PID infrastructure in the open research community
• Community: UK open research community
• Practice: Collectively making research information and data more useful and
meaningful: reducing administrative complexity and burden, increasing efficiency,
improving quality, integrating disparate sources across the research and
dissemination life‐cycle, and promoting reuse.

4. Approach
“A blend of approaches and interventions shall be developed to ensure equitable
access to these PID services, and to guarantee the longer term accessibility and
sustainability of the network. For this reason, Jisc is convening a stakeholder group
of all key stakeholder representatives from the UK academic research sector and
wider global research community to provide oversight and governance to this
project.”

5. Leverage existing models, governance
structures and services
Efforts should be made to leverage existing
structures, models and processes that work well,
such as;
• DataCite consortium (led by British Library
for 10 years)
• ORCID consortium (led by Jisc for 5 years)
• Crossref membership and sponsoring
organization model
Each PID infrastructure and service has its own
complexities; sharing experiences is key
Avoid “re-creating” what already works and
identify where there are gaps
Not all PID infrastructure providers have the same
level of maturity

6. National vs global perspective
Research and existing infrastructure is global so it should be clear how the national
efforts map across global engagements.
Various PID providers operate on a global scale - make sure that the national
governance structures coordinate in the global context.

7. Open research
People, places and things
Recognize the value of “common”
persistent identifiers in making
research information and data
more useful and meaningful:
reducing administrative complexity
and burden, increasing efficiency,
improving quality, integrating
disparate sources across the
research and dissemination
life‐cycle, promoting the reuse

8. PIDs and metadata
Ensure that the focus is not exclusively “PIDs” -
metadata and services that the PIDs are part of is
more important than just the PIDs.
Attention to the broader PID ecosystem -
ensuring relations in the metadata

9. Thank you!
matt.buys@datacite.org
@mjbuys
@datacite
datacite.org