(18 Jul 2024) From June 11-13, 2024, 175 persistent identifier (PID) enthusiasts from around the world gathered in Prague for the first PIDfest, with a further 100 joining virtually. Billed as “a three-day international summit of talks, activities and workshops focusing on how persistent identifiers can deliver world-class research infrastructure,” it was also something of a successor to PIDapalooza, the self-described Open Festival of Persistent Identifiers, which ran more or less annually from 2016-2021. While the two events shared much in common, they were managed differently. PIDapalooza was organized and hosted by several of the major PID/infrastructure organizations (Crossref, DataCite, ORCID, ROR, and latterly NISO), while PIDfest, which grew out of the increasing number of national PID strategies being developed, was organized and hosted by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK).
Here‘s the summary and reflection about the event.
