The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced that, from January 2021, it will be hosting the PID Forum, an online platform for the persistent identifier (PID) community, launched in 2019 under the auspices of the FREYA Project. FREYA was funded under the European Horizon 2020 programme (grant number 777523) and has been developing the infrastructure for PIDs in the European Open Science Cloud and globally. Following a competitive tender process earlier in 2020, NISO was chosen by FREYA to host the Forum after the three-year project ends.
The PID Forum is one of three key FREYA outputs, along with the PID Graph and the PID Commons. It is intended to be an open and inclusive online platform to bring together the various communities working with PIDs in the research world. Popular features include a Knowledge Hub, User Stories, PID News & Blogs, and PID-related Events. It is also used as an online meeting place by groups within the PID community, including the Research Organizations Registry (ROR) and the FREYA Ambassadors.
NISO is closely involved in the PIDs community through its work to formalise persistent identifiers such as Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), serials numbers, and related metadata structures as standards; its role as Secretariat of the ISO group responsible for standardising and maintaining a number of international PIDs; its incorporation and promotion of PIDs into other standards, schema, and recommended practices; and, from 2021, its involvement as a co-organiser of the annual PIDapalooza festival of persistent identifiers.
While no immediate changes are planned for the PID Forum from a technical standpoint, NISO will be surveying the community in early 2021 to help establish priorities for expanding community engagement and support for the Forum, building on the success of the FREYA team’s work.
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