One of the key benefits of having openly accessible metadata for a scholarly record is to easily identify and expose the relations among works—for example, investigations conducted in different domains that cite the same literature, results reported by different teams that drew from the same datasets, or projects outputs delivered years ago that inspired new experiments or methodology. These relations have always existed, but are often hidden due to variable archiving conventions and siloed preservation and communication practices. With properly implemented persistent identifier (PID) workflows, however, they can be readily discovered and be fed back into the research process, supporting evidence-based assessment. 

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