John Aspler
Manager, Canadian Persistent Identifier Community
Canadian Research Knowledge Network
Dedicated to service and knowledge access, John has experience working in research and public library contexts. He earned a PhD in neuroscience from McGill University in 2021.
Presenting at the following sessions
May 15, 2025
1:00pm
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Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are long-lasting, globally unique, digital labels for a person, place or thing. Examples include digital object identifiers (DOIs) for journal articles, books, and datasets, ORCID iDs for people, and Research Organization Registries (RORs) for organizations. PIDs are
With upcoming changes to the Tri-Agency OA Policy for publications and an increased effort internationally to better track the outcomes of research funding, many have fixed their gaze on facilitating and improving funder metadata in research publications. On the surface, this sounds easy enough. You
October 21, 2026
3:45pm
Canada’s National PID Strategy is a call to action: to make PIDs a core part of how research is connected, credited, and shared in Canada. Building on the Strategy’s March 2026 publication, this session will focus on what its calls to action mean in practice for institutions, funders, and research
