The Organization Identifier Project: a way forward

The scholarly communications sector has built and adopted a series of open identifier and metadata infrastructure systems to great success. Content identifiers (through Crossref and DataCite) and contributor identifiers (through ORCID) have become foundational infrastructure to the industry. But there still seems to be one piece of the infrastructure that is missing. There is as yet no open, stakeholder-governed infrastructure for organization identifiers and associated metadata.

In order to understand this gap, Crossref, DataCite and ORCID have been collaborating to:
– Explore the current landscape of organizational identifiers;
– Collect the use-cases that would benefit our respective stakeholders in scholarly communications industry;

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The result of this work is in three related papers being released by Crossref, DataCite and ORCID for community review and feedback. The three papers are:

– Organization Identifier Project: A Way Forward (PDF; GDoc)
– Organization Identifier Provider Landscape (PDF; GDoc)
– Technical Considerations for an Organization Identifier Registry (PDF; GDoc)

We invite the community to comment on these papers both via email (oi-project@orcid.org) and at PIDapalooza on November 9th and 10th and at Crossref LIVE16 on November 1st and 2nd.

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