It has been a year since THOR launched in June 2015 and a natural time to take stock of what the project has achieved and some of the ways that our understanding has matured. In the THOR vision, persistent identifiers are the default. They are the new normal. And they are interlinked and embedded in the services that researchers use every day.

This blog post by Martin Fenner has been cross-posted from the DataCite blog. On July 12, 2016, DataCite invited Andreas Rauber to present the recommendations for dynamic data citation of the RDA Data Citation Working Group in a webinar. Andreas is one of the co-chairs of the RDA working group, and he gave a throughout overview of the recommendations, and the thinking that went into them.

On Thursday July 7 2016, project THOR organised the workshop: Identifiers – Infrastructure, Impact and Innovation to showcase the research and work done by all THOR partners during the project’s first year. The event in Amsterdam attracted a mixed audience of representatives from publishing companies, universities and research institutions.

Would you like to learn more about persistent identifiers, data-article linking, integration services, dynamic data citation, and much more? And how these interoperable research services will lead to opportunities for innovation and foster open science?

A range of European and global initiatives is under way to support research practices and sharing in the digital era.

On April 17, as part of FORCE 2016 in Portland Oregon, Crossref, and THOR partners DataCite and ORCID convened a workshop to discuss the current state of the art in organisation identifiers. We discussed this issue previously in a post on the ORCID blog, and we’re pleased to report back to you all that the workshop was a big success.

The THOR Project is looking for an early-career library science specialist to work with our team at CERN on the forefront of Open Science services for the High Energy Physics community, focusing on persistent identifiers and metadata requirements. As a large scale scientific laboratory, CERN produces research data in high volume and demands sophisticated data management and preservation efforts.

Key to achieving THOR’s mission is building capacity to increase the use of persistent identifiers. To establish a sustainable e-infrastructure, we need to make sure we are reaching as many people as possible so the entire research community will see the advantages of integrated and interoperable PID systems.

THOR’s Project Coordinator Adam Farquhar (British Library) recently delivered a keynote at Our Digital Future. The conference, which was held in Cambridge on 14−15 March 2016, addressed challenges in long term preservation and archiving of digital data across a wide range of disciplines. His talk, titled “Diamonds are forever.

On Thursday February 25th project THOR organised a workshop about the use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) within the biosciences community at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton, UK. EMBL-EBI are a THOR partner, and the event drew a capacity crowd. Team members from ORCID EU and EBI gave presentations on the scope and future of ORCID and the use of ORCID iDs and Research Object Identifiers (ROIs) at EBI.

On Thursday March 17, 3pm-4pm CET, OpenAIRE, THOR, Datacite, and ORCID will organise a one hour webinar on data – article linking services. Project OpenAIRE aims to support the implementation of Open Science in Europe and will demonstrate during the webinar how they collaborate with DataCite and CrossRef to establish a sustainable e-infrastructure for researchers.