- Authors: Carly Huitema, Robert Mitwicki, Dave McKay, Wenjing Chu, Dian Ross
- Status: PROPOSED
- Since: 2021-03-18
- Status Note: White Paper is approved as a final deliverable of the EFWG
- Supersedes: (link to anything this ToIP Deliverable supersedes)
- Start Date: 2021-01-21
- Tags: #efwg, #wptf, #resourceidentifiers, #researchidentifiers, #pid, #did
Research objects (e.g., authors, samples, equipment, and datasets) need digital identifiers that are persistent, unique, and globally resolvable to enable a host of benefits in the research ecosystem. The current organization of these digital identifiers means that for each new class of identifier there is de novo creation of the requisite supporting identifier system. We propose to outline an ecosystem of Decentralized Resource Identifiers (DRIs), compatible with existing identifiers but offering numerous benefits including decentralization, interoperability, and security. The DRI ecosystem would consist of the technology infrastructure and related tools such as guiding principles, governance examples, semantics, training, documentation.
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