PIDapalooza: November 9-10.

[John Chodacki]

PIDapalooza, a community-led conference on persistent identifiers

November 9-10, 2016

Reykjavík, Iceland

pidapalooza.org

If you’re doing something interesting with persistent identifiers, or you want to, come to PIDapalooza and share your ideas with a crowd of like-minded innovators.  PIDapalooza is organized by California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID.  

Conference themes include: 

1. PID myths. Are PIDs better in our minds than in reality? PID stands for Persistent IDentifier, but what does that mean and does such a thing exist? 

2. Achieving persistence. So many factors affect persistence: mission, oversight, funding, succession, redundancy, governance. Is open infrastructure for scholarly communication the key to achieving persistence? 

3. PIDs for emerging uses. Long-term identifiers are no longer just for digital objects. We have use cases for people, organizations, vocabulary terms, and more. What additional use cases are you working on? 

4. Legacy PIDs. There are of thousands of venerable old identifier systems that people want to continue using and bring into the modern data citation ecosystem. How can we manage this effectively? 

5. The I-word. What would make heterogeneous PID systems "interoperate" optimally? Would standardized metadata and APIs across PID types solve many of the problems, and if so, how would that be achieved? What about standardized link/relation types? 

6. PIDagogy. It’s a challenge for those who provide PID services and tools to engage the wider community. How do you teach, learn, persuade, discuss, and improve adoption? What's it mean to build a pedagogy for PIDs? 

7. PID stories. Which strategies worked? Which strategies failed? Tell us your horror stories! Share your victories! 

8. Kinds of persistence. What are the frontiers of ‘persistence’? We hear lots about fraud prevention with identifiers for scientific reproducibility, but what about data papers promoting PIDs for long-term access to reliably improving objects (software, pre-prints, datasets) or live data feeds? 

Call for proposals:  Submit a proposal for a lightweight super informal 30-min session (by September 18) and register to attend at www.pidapalooza.org

Please forward: Spread the word and follow the fun @pidapalooza

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