National Persistent Identifiers Strategy: Building an Interconnected and Open Research Ecosystem
Wednesday October 22, 2025
From 9:00am to 10:00am
CRKN and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, joint caretakers of a national Persistent Identifier program, have developed a suite of practical tools and are drafting a set of future activities to directly support a national strategy across the entire Canadian research ecosystem. In 2025, this shared work has moved quickly from laying groundwork to operationalization. In this session, team members from CRKN and the Alliance will provide an update on the national PID program, highlighting significant advances toward the implementation of a National PID Strategy in Canada, including advances in research data visualization; significant national uptake in DataCite and ORCID consortial memberships; and exciting new PID implementations across our national funder systems. This session will focus on strengthening our collective understanding of how PIDs weave through our national research content to help make it accessible. Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss and provide feedback on how these tools help foster a collective approach to open science and open access nationally.
