Immediately before the start of the Research Data Alliance 6th Plenary session, on the 21st September, DataCite and EPIC are organising a half-day event to discuss how Persistent Identifiers can meet the challenges presented by data intensive research.
As you may recall from the Knowledge Exchange Workshop presentation, the work of THOR is composed of several strands: Research, Integration, Outreach, and Sustainability. That last strand, Sustainability, fits with our overall theme of persistence.
THOR was part of a presentation last week in Melbourne. The occasion was a seminar on Identifiers and Linked data in the research space hosted by OCLC at Latrobe University.
Researcher Identifiers – National approaches to ORCID and ISNI implementation Members of the THOR team spent Monday and Tuesday attending the “Researcher Identifiers – National approaches to ORCID and ISNI implementation” workshop in London. The workshop focused on person identifiers, with the bulk of discussion about the use of ORCID, CRIS systems, ISNI, federated identity and organisational identifiers.
THOR is a joint project, with 10 partners from across the research ecosystem. THOR will run for 30 months, and has been funded by the European Commission under call H2020-EINFRA-2014-2, project number 654039.
The THOR project has officially launched! THOR (Technical and Human infrastructure for Open Research) will build on the services provided by ORCID and DataCite to ensure that every researcher, at any phase of their career, or at any institution, will have seamless and free access to Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for their research artefacts and their work will be uniquely attributed to them.