Australian National Persistent Identifier (PID) Strategy 2024

Read the 2024 Australian National PID Strategy – created through a coordinated, comprehensive and collaborative process led by the ARDC to realise the potential saving and drive strategic benefit of Persistent Identifiers.

Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are a core infrastructure component of a world-class, global digital information ecosystem. They provide a universal, machine-readable, interoperable method to uniquely identify and connect entities such as researchers and innovators, funders, organisations, articles, datasets, projects, software, instruments and samples. This allows us to manage the fragmented, complex, distributed and federated research and innovation ecosystem, and derive insights that will accelerate it for Australia.

The Australian National Persistent Identifier Strategy is the culmination of a coordinated, comprehensive and collaborative process led by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). It has been informed by extensive consultation through national workshops, working groups, webinars and via an open call for individual and group submissions. A National PID Strategy Taskforce comprised of senior stakeholders provided strategic advice and guidance. Released as a draft in July 2023, the Strategy has been refined through extensive and open co-design, consultation and engagement with the sector.

Contents

• Introduction
• The Challenges
• The Opportunity
• The Vision
• The Strategy
• Implementation

Next Steps

A Roadmap accompanying the Strategy is being developed with coordination from the ARDC and key input from Linda O’Brien. To stay tuned and learn how you can engage with the Roadmap, subscribe to the ARDC Connect newsletter.