2024-07-12

In June 2024, our Service Steward for PID4NFDI, Jana Tatscheck, visited the PIDfest in Prague at the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK), along with the PID4NFDI team. 

PIDfest is a newly established international conference series solely dedicated to persistent identifiers (PIDs), their usage, further development and community networking. This year it was hosted for three days by i.a., NTK and the ARDC (Australian Research Data Commons) and was the first of many PIDfests to come.

As PIDs are a working example of all FAIR principles, they are a vital piece of infrastructure and crucial for its implementation in Research Data Management (RDM) and Open Science. In addition to the persistence, PIDs' rich metadata are yet to be discovered and require more attention and awareness in the future.

The PID4NFDI team presented their project in context of the German national PID strategy pursued by the PID Network Deutschland e.V.  and discussed their ideas in multiple unconference sessions. Base4NFDI gladly expanded their knowledge about PIDs and network with other national initiatives beyond the NFDI. Base4NFDI was also happy to support our basic service teams on site and enjoyed the first in-person meeting with the team to discuss the current project and strengthen the team work. 

PIDfest, see you next time! 

Impressions from the NTK's roof over the city (top) and the NTK's interior (bottom).