Persistent identifiers: the building blocks of the research information infrastructure

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Persistent identifiers: the building blocks of the research information infrastructure
Alice Meadows, Laurel L. Haak, Josh Brown, UKSG Insights, 2019/03/14
Though this article addresses the research infrastructure it could be addressing the wider world of knowledge and learning. The authors argue " Persistent identifiers (PIDs) – for people (researchers), places (their organizations) and things (their research outputs and other contributions) – are foundational elements in the overall research information infrastructure." These, they suggest, should conform to FAIR principles - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. Additionally, the authors write, we need to be able to identify the source of the metadata - who entered it, and what authority they had to do so. More...