This article begins by asking what we would like in a successful research infrastructure, moves easily into interoperability, and settles on persistent identifiers (PID). Part of the problem with PID is that there are numerous PID schemes for researchers, resources, and everything else, "including for organizations (ROR), grants (DOI, PURL), projects (RAiD), conferences (DOI, Accession number), instruments (DOI, RRID), and cultural artefacts (DOI, URN). Plus ORCID iDs, of course." One issue is that different tools are developed for different disciplines. But also, from my perspective, we see tools also developed to advance specific (read: commercial) agendas. Once we get past the idea that publishers can own (and charge for) these elements of a common research infrastructure, maybe we'll get one.
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