The Evolution of Research: How Persistent Identifiers Are Transforming the Scholarly Landscape
Museum Front-Face Visualization. This image is sourced from ChatGPT’s DALL·E image generation. Introduction Imagine a world where every piece of research—every article, dataset, researcher, and institution—is seamlessly connected, no matter where it resides or how the digital landscape shifts. This isn’t a distant dream; it’s the reality being forged by persistent identifiers (PIDs). These unassuming […]
Understanding the PID Graph: Building Connected Research Infrastructure for the Digital Age
How Persistent Identifiers Are Creating a Navigable Map of Knowledge This blog post is based on and summarises the paper “Connected Research: The Potential of the PID Graph” by Helena Cousijn, Ricarda Braukmann, Martin Fenner, Christine Ferguson, René van Horik, Rachael Lammey, Alice Meadows, and Simon Lambert, published in 2021. The original paper introduced the […]