OCLC Research and LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, will launch a collaborative project to explore the adoption and integration of persistent identifiers (PIDs) in European research information management (RIM) infrastructures.
The project will complement and extend previous research institution-scale implementations of RIM in European institutions. The study will provide university and research library leaders with useful insights on emerging practices and challenges in research management at institutional, group, national and transnational scales.
Research institutions throughout Europe are engaged in research information management practices to aggregate, curate and utilise information about the research conducted at their institutions. These efforts are rapidly scaling nationally and transnationally, as advancing technologies, standards, and networked information offer new opportunities for interoperability and discoverability.
In this particular collaborative research effort, the organisations will examine research information management practices in three European national contexts—Finland, Germany and the Netherlands—with close attention to the adoption and integration of PIDs and their role in supporting disambiguation and interoperability. Through a series of semi-structured interviews with practitioners and stakeholders within universities, national libraries and collaborative Information and Communications Technology (ICT) organisations, they will develop robust case studies of national RIM infrastructure as well as specific examples of RIM practices and PID integration.
A presentation about this project is planned for the 46th LIBER Annual Conference in Patras, Greece, July 5-7, 2017.
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