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Barsky, Eugene

Prepared for NDRIO in November 2020. For the ORCID Canada Consortium, DataCite Canada Consortium, and the Canadian Research Data Management (RDM) Community. Research is increasingly international and multidisciplinary, resulting in a very complex scholarly environment. Unique identifiers facilitate discovery and reuse of content, global interoperability, and a better understanding of the impact and value of scholarship. PIDs are the building blocks of the FAIR Principles. They reduce time and administrative burden by enabling data entered into one system to be automatically reused in the context of other systems, supporting more streamlined and automated processes for researchers, funders, vendors, and institutions. Additionally, PIDs facilitate the transfer of information across organizations and establish links across systems institutionally, nationally, and internationally. Used together, PIDs represent a sophisticated digital infrastructure of interconnected people, organizations, and resources that enable the community to innovate in new ways. Clearly, there are many advantages to adopting sustainable solutions for unique identifiers for Canadian research entities and outputs.

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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0395014

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