A grouping of PID-provider member organisations, typically at national or regional scale, formed to share infrastructure, contracts, and support around one or more persistent identifier schemes such as DOI, ORCID, or ROR.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 10 Jul 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
The UK PID consortium ecosystem (Jisc for ORCID; British Library for DataCite).
Is an instance
An umbrella national PID coordinating body advising on adoption.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A single university's local PID minting service is not a PID consortium.
Not an instance
A vendor's customer advisory board is not a PID consortium.

Editorial commentary

PID consortia let countries adopt PID infrastructure cost-effectively and develop local policy and training capacity. The pattern is best developed for ORCID (national consortia leads such as Jisc, CRKN, DEFF) and DataCite (national consortia leads such as TIB and the British Library). PID consortia also coordinate national PID strategies — for example the UK’s National PID Strategy and the Australian Research Data Commons PID strategy work — and act as collective voices to PID providers on community priorities.

References

Brown J., Demeranville T., Meadows A., 'Open Persistent Identifier Infrastructures: The Foundation of FAIR' (ORCID/DataCite/Crossref joint communications).
Jisc/UKRI, 'UK National PID Strategy'.

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

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Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

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