Research Data & Infrastructure
Persistent Identifiers
ORCID, ROR, DOI, RAiD and related identifier infrastructure — adoption mandates, registry changes, and integration developments across the scholarly stack.
Coverage (15)
- ROR 2026 Meeting: East Asia Growth, Search
ROR’s March 2026 recap of its Annual Community Meeting reports that nearly 20% of the 8,000+ organization records added in 2025 are in East Asia, and confirms ‘single search’ becomes ROR’s default aff…
- Australia’s ARC PID Action Plan Targets 2026
ARC’s 5-goal PID Action Plan — DOIs on grants, ROR on institutions, ORCID on personnel, plus a FAIR data policy — is due complete by end of 2026.…
- ORCID 2030: Its New Strategic Plan Explained
ORCID has published ORCID 2030: Advancing the Future of Research, its strategic plan for 2026-2029, built around five themes: empowering researchers, connecting research information, broadening its co…
- OpenAlex’s DataCite Grant-Linking Goes Live
OpenAlex now ingests DataCite’s funder and grant metadata daily, part of a $3.6M Wellcome grant to build open funding infrastructure.…
- Crossref 2026: ROR IDs Up 250%, Grant DOIs Grow
Crossref’s 2026 public data file shows ROR IDs up 250% and grant-identifier links reaching 50,000 records, alongside its first Latin America Metadata Sprint.…
- ROR’s Version-1 API and Schema Sunset (Dec 2025): What Institutions Need to Know
ROR retired version 1 of its API and metadata schema in December 2025. Here is the actual timeline, what changed in schema v2, and what to check if your institution has any ROR-consuming integration.…
- Crossref’s First Position Paper: PID Policy Needs a Holistic Approach
Crossref has published its first position paper, arguing that national and international PID policy focused narrowly on identifiers misses what actually makes research infrastructure work: open linked…
- ORCID and China’s CSTR Identification Platform Sign MOU on PID Interoperability
ORCID and China’s CSTR Identification Platform signed an MOU on July 16, 2026 to pursue interoperability between their persistent identifier systems. No technical implementation details have been publ…
- Universities Set Their Own ORCID Deadlines for 2026
Federal agencies now require ORCID as a digital persistent identifier; universities are setting their own 2026 linkage deadlines ahead of enforcement.…
- Funder ORCID iD requirements: 2026 landscape
ORCID iDs are now required by most major funders for PIs and increasingly for co-investigators. A practical map of where the requirements bite in 2026.…
- DataCite, GitHub, Zenodo: the three-cornered software-citation stack
Software citation in 2026 runs on a three-cornered stack. The roles of DataCite, GitHub, and Zenodo — and what integrators should do about the seams.…
- Project IDs in 2026: RAiD adoption update
RAiD has moved from pilot to operational service in several jurisdictions. A status report on adoption, integration patterns, and the questions still open.…
- Welcome to CASRAI on its new home
The CASRAI website has moved to a modern headless stack — Next.js front, WordPress back, federated with NISO, euroCRIS, CODATA, RDA, ORCID, Crossref, DataCite and ARDC.…
- Persistent identifiers in 2026: ORCID + ROR + RAiD + DOI
The PID quartet that anchors modern research metadata: how ORCID, ROR, RAiD, and DOIs interlock in 2026, and what’s still broken at the crosswalk layer.…
- Crossref’s grant-linking initiative and CRediT: a 2025 status
Crossref Grants, the Funder Registry, and the long-awaited grant-to-output linkage. What CRediT integrators need to know to consume the new graph.…
