Join us next week, May 12-16th, for PID Week 2025!
What is a Persistent Identifier (PID)?
Librarians, like private detectives, are hot on the trail to expose this mystery! All week, we’ll be uncovering what PIDs are and how they help you as a NOAA employee.
Definition: A persistent identifier does just what it says on the tin. It is unique, persistent, machine resolvable, and processable and that helps identify, disambiguate, attribute, and locate a “something or someone” across platforms - like a clue.
Examples of PIDs
Author Identifiers
🔎 ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) a free, unique, persistent identifier for individuals. ORCIDs help disambiguate and identify individual researchers and their scholarly output. Fingerprints wish!
Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)
🔎A DOI, is a persistent, unique alphanumeric identifier that provides a persistent link to an object (most commonly a document, article, or dataset). NOAA Library issues DOIs for NOAA publications that are submitted to the NOAA Institutional Repository - which makes them findable for-ev-er.
Research Organization Registry (ROR)
🔎This is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations. ROR makes it easy for anyone or any system to disambiguate institution names and connect research organizations to researchers and research outputs. Follow the money – we mean the ROR!
How do all the different types of persistent identifiers work together to help us better understand the full research and development lifecycle?
When using ORCIDs, DOIs, and ROR IDs, we can see the activity and relationships between people, their research, and the organizations they are affiliated with. This makes research and scholarly resources more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable).
Attend our seminar to learn more
Wednesday, March 14th @12PM - It’s All Connected: Unraveling the mystery of how PIDs work and connect to support research
Register to attend: https://vimeo.com/event/5037213 [Add to your Google Calendar]
It's not Colonel Mustard in the kitchen with a lead pipe, it's Jennifer Fagan-Fry in the library with a DOI! Join our femme fatale for a webinar on PIDs and learn how it’s all interconnected - she won’t lead you astray.