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Crossref/THOR Outreach Meeting, Warsaw, Poland Monday, 24 April 2017 Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences This outreach meeting aims to explore how the research community can work together to help connect research and improve discoverability of content – publications, data and more.

This has been cross-posted on the ORCID blog. The THOR team is hard at work helping forge the path to sustainable persistent identifier (PID) services. As with any long-term goal, a bit of self-reflection is helpful for tracking your progress, considering your successes, and psyching yourself up to tackle challenges along the way.

Researchers demand credit for the work that they do. While there are well established practices and services in place to give credit for traditional publications, these are sorely lacking for the full range of research artefacts, including data and software. THOR partners have been busy developing data claiming services.

A THOR-ENVRIplus Bootcamp Are you working in a technical or leading role within an Environmental Research Infrastructure? Join us at Aalto University in Finland on March 28-29, 2017 to learn more about ORCID integrations and discuss best practices with colleagues from other Environmental Research Infrastructures. Project THOR supports seamless integration between articles, data and researchers across the research lifecycle.

With local support from THOR ambassador Eva Mendez, the first edition of the THOR Bootcamp was successfully carried out in Madrid, at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid on November 16-18. The Bootcamp is part of THOR’s outreach effort to engage and train local scholarly communication communities to further adoption of PID services. The full set of slides used can be found on the THOR Knowledge Hub.

If November taught us anything, it’s that open identifiers clearly do deserve their own festival. On 9 ^th and 10 ^th November 2016, people from all over the world gathered in Reykjavik to share PID stories, demos, use cases, victories, horror stories, and new frontiers at PIDapalooza, the first conference dedicated to PIDs.

Scientific research infrastructures collect large quantities of values. Values are typically numbers that result from observation, experiment, or computing activities. For instance, plant scientists collect values that result from observing fluxes of carbon dioxide on the leaf-atmosphere boundary; high-energy physicists collect values that result from observing collisions of atomic particles;

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are increasingly embedded in the services that researchers use every day, enabling unambiguous attribution of the full range of scholarly outputs. This makes it easier for data producers and researchers to get credit for their contributions; for data centres, universities and funders to track the impact of the research they facilitate; for publishers to incorporate data into scholarly writing;

In November 2015 the “eInfrastructure” Unit at the European Commission Directorate General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology asked several e-Infrastructure providers to develop a framework for a service portfolio to describe services developed with funding from the directorate. The THOR project participated in the definition of the concepts underlying such a portfolio. The resulting framework can be found here.

On October 13, we held a webinar for our ambassadors to update them on recent THOR activities. Tom Demeranville explained more about ORCID integrations at the THOR disciplinary partners, ORCID Work Identifier types and other recent technological developments, such as Datacite’s Event Data and ORCID Auto Update. A preview of what THOR is planning for the remainder of 2016 and in 2017 was given by Josh Brown.