We would like to request that support for Persistent IdentifiersĀ (PIDs) be added to the Marketplace product roadmap.
In contemporary Research Data Management environments, support for identifiers such as ORCID iDs for individuals and ROR IDs for organizations is increasingly standard practice. These identifiers play an important role in improving metadata quality, enabling unambiguous identification of entities, and supporting interoperability across systems.
PID support also complements the FAIR Guiding Principles, particularly by strengthening:
- Findability
- Interoperability
- Reusability
At present, the ability to associate structured persistent identifiers with people and organizations would provide significant value in cases such as:
- identifying creators, contributors, and contact persons using ORCID
- identifying institutions, affiliations, publishers, and other organizations using ROR
- improving metadata exchange with external systems and repositories
- supporting more precise and machine-actionable metadata records
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We request consideration of the following capabilities:
- Support for ORCID iDs for relevant person-based roles, such as creator, contributor, and contact point
- Support for ROR IDs for organization-based roles, such as publisher, affiliation, and responsible organization
- Storage of these identifiers as structured metadata fields, rather than only as unstructured text
- Inclusion of PID values in relevant metadata exports and standards-based mappings where appropriate
- Basic validation of identifier syntax and format where feasible
Adding PID support would improve standards alignment, enhance metadata quality, and better position Marketplace within the broader research data and metadata ecosystem.
We would appreciate this being considered for inclusion on the product roadmap.
Below is an example of an implementation from another RDM platform
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