Org ID: a recap and a hint of things to come

Over the past couple of years, a group of organizations with a shared purpose – California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID – invested our time and energy into launching the Org ID initiative, with the goal of defining requirements for an open, community-led organization identifier registry. The goal of our initiative has been to […]

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Next steps for the Organization ID Initiative: Report from the Stakeholder Meeting

This blog post by Laure Haak, Ed Pentz and Trisha Cruse was cross-posted from the ORCID blog. On 22 January, ORCID, DataCite and Crossref co-hosted an Organization ID Stakeholders meeting. The meeting marked a transition from the work of the Organization ID Working Group to a formal launch of an Organization ID Registry Initiative. Attendees […]

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The OI Project gets underway planning an Open Organization Identifier Registry

At the end of October 2016, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID reported on collaboration in the area of organization identifiers [@https://doi.org/10.5438/TNHX-54CG]. We issued three papers [@https://doi.org/10.5438/2906;@https://doi.org/10.5438/4716;@https://doi.org/10.5438/7885] for community comment and after input we subsequently announced the formation of The OI Project, along with a call for expressions of interest from people interested in serving on the […]

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Announcing the Organization Identifier Project: a Way Forward

The scholarly research community has come to depend on a series of open identifier and metadata infrastructure systems to great success. Content identifiers (through DataCite and Crossref) and contributor identifiers (through ORCID) have become foundational infrastructure for the community. But there is one piece of the infrastructure that is missing – there currently is no […]

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