Developing a ‘how-to’ guide for National PID Strategies

At the RDA Plenary 17 a Birds of a Feather session examined six case studies of national PID strategies and frameworks, looked at commonalities and divergences between them, and assessed the potential benefit of collaboration and alignment in the development and implementation of future national initiatives.

The consensus from this BoF was that a National PID Strategies WG should be formed with the objective of enabling coordination and community discussion to deliver the following:

• Coordinate and align different national PID strategies and bring together PID experts to support the group
• Map common activities across national agencies/efforts and produce a guide on the specific PIDs adopted in the context of national PID strategies
• Agree PID categories and define common metadata and standards for PIDs
• A minimal set of PIDs for international interoperability
• Example ideas on governance and common workflows
• The benefits from having a national PID strategy and adopting priority PIDs and the investment requirements.

The Working Group’s case statement was presented and reviewed at the RDA VP18 WG meeting in the Aligning and coordinating national PID strategies session. This included updates from the countries represented in the BoF plus updates from other countries interested in joining the group.

The Working Group became recognised and endorsed on 10 December 2021. The group has held meetings during its first 6 months and this plenary session meeting will provide a progress update on these first 6 months and present the first outputs (guide and case studies) from the group.