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September 2025 Workshop at NSF NCAR Mesa Laboratory

Date: September 22-24, 2025

Location: NSF NCAR Mesa Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado

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• Speaker slides

Workshop Agenda

Day 1 (Sept 22), 12:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Introductions and High-Level Insights

• 12:30 - 1:00 Participants arrive and check-in
• 1:00 - 1:45 Workshop introduction & Project Progress
  • FAIR Facilities and Instruments (FAIR F&I) Project Overview
  • Discussion of key goals for the workshop
• 1:45 - 3:00 General Recommendations & PID Systems
  • Overview of general recommendations by FAIR F&I project team
  • (virtual) Maria Gould, DataCite
  • Anita Bandrowski, Research Resource Identification, RRID, initiative
  • Amanda French, Research Organization Registry (ROR)
• 3:00 - 3:30 Break
• 3:30 - 4:30 Breakout groups sessions - Topic: general recommendations
• 4:30 - 5:00 Breakout group reports and preview tomorrow

Day 2 (Sept 23) 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Stakeholder Recommendations & PID Connections

• 8:30 - 9:00 Participants arrive
• 9:00 - 10:45 Stakeholder-Specific Recommendations
  • Overview of stakeholder recommendations by FAIR F&I project team
  • Marc Segers, AIP Publishing
  • Caterina Strambio-De-Castillia, UMass Chan Medical School
  • Nate Herzog, Core Marketplace
  • David Elbert, Johns Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute
  • Data librarian interest group (speaker tbd)
• 10:45 - 10:30 break
• 11:00 - 12:00 Breakout sessions focused on specific stakeholders
• 12:00 - 1:15 Lunch
• 1:15 - 1:45 Breakout group reports
• 1:45 - 3:15 Topical talks - Connections Between PIDs for Related Resources
  • (virtual) Christine Kirkpatrick / Chris Erdmann, US Research Activity Identifier (RAiD) Pilot
  • David Hart, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • Neil Byers, US DOE Joint Genome Institute
  • Ted Habermann, Metadata Game Changers
• 3:15 - 3:30 break
• 3:30 - 4:30 Breakout group sessions - Topic: Connections between related resources using PIDs
• 4:30 - 5:00 Breakout group reports and preview final day

Day 3(Sept 24), 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM: How do we move forward and build upon these discussions with our communities? What are the big picture outcomes and next steps?

• 8:30 - 9:00 Participants arrive
• 9:00 - 9:15 Review and prioritize outputs from day 1 and 2
• 9:15 - 10:30 Panel: Looking Forward From Different Stakeholder Perspectives
  • Shawna Sadler, ORCID
  • Dylan Ruediger, Ithaka S+R
• 10:30 - 10:45 Break
• 10:45 - 12:00 Final discussion, review next steps for workshop report, and requested participant actions

August 2024 Workshop at Florida State University

Date: August 20-22, 2024

Location: National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University - Talllahassee, Florida

Key Links

• Speaker slides

Workshop Agenda

Day 1, 12:30 PM - 5:00 PM

• Theme: Progress and Lessons Learned
• 12:30 - 1:00 Participants arrive and check-in
• 1:00 - 2:00 Workshop introduction & Project Progress
  • FAIR Facilities and Instruments updates
  • Annie Glerum, Florida State University: Challenges with creating PID ontologies
• 2:00 - 3:00 Topical Talks: Community Advances In PIDs for Facilities and Instruments
  • David Elbert - Johns Hopkins University
• Anita Bandrowski - University of California San Diego & SciCrunch
• Ted Habermann - Metadata Game Changers
• Siobhann McCafferty - Australian Research Data Commons (remote)
• 3:00 - 3:30 Break
• 3:30 - 4:30 Breakout groups sessions
• 4:30 - 5:00 Breakout group reports and preview tomorrow

Day 2, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

• Theme: Practical Challenges
• 9:00 - 9:30 Participants arrive
• 9:30 - 10:45 Facility operator panel - What are the key issues and opportunities?
  • Thayumanasamy “Soma” Somasundaram - Florida State University
  • Kevin Knupp - University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • Peter Randolph - Florida State University
• 10:45 - 11:00 break
• 11:00 - 12:00 Breakout group sessions on practical challenges
• 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
• 1:30 - 2:00 Breakout group reports
• 2:00 - 3:00 Tracing PIDs in literature - Experiences with DOIs and RRIDs
  • Nate Herzog - CoreMarketplace
  • Matt Mayernik - NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • Rob Day - Research Space
  • Tara Packer - CHORUS
• 3:00 - 3:15 break
• 3:15 - 4:30 Breakout group sessions
• 4:30 - 5:00 Breakout group reports and preview tomorrow

Day 3, 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

• Theme: How do we move forward and build upon these discussions with our communities? What are the big picture outcomes and next steps?
• 9:00 - 9:30 Participants arrive
• 9:30 - 10:00 Review and prioritize outputs from day 1 and 2
• 10:00 - 11:00 Topical Talks: Looking Forward From Different Stakeholder Perspectives
  • Don Brower - University of Notre Dame & CI Compass
  • Sarah Siddiqui - University of Rochester
  • Ed Stanley - University of Florida
  • Shawna Sadler - ORCID
• 11:00 - 11:15 Break
• 11:15 - 12:15 Final discussion, review next steps for workshop report, and requested participant actions

September 2023 Workshop at University of Colorado Boulder

Date: September 13-15, 2023

Location: Norlin Library, Room N410, University of Colorado Boulder - Boulder, Colorado

Key Links

• Speaker slides

Workshop Agenda

SEPT 13 - Day 1, 12:30-5:00 PM

• Theme: What is the existing landscape in using persistent identifiers for instruments and facilities and what gaps exist in that landscape for producers and users?
• 12:30 - 1:00 Participants arrive and check-in
• 1:00 - 1:15 Welcome from Robert McDonald, Dean of University Libraries, Senior Vice Provost of Online Education, and Professor of Library Administration at CU Boulder
• 1:15 - 1:45 Workshop introduction
• 1:45 - 1:50 Review pre-workshop survey results
• 1:50 - 2:50 Topical Talks: Use Cases (5 x 10 minutes)
  • David Butcher - National MagLab
  • Caterina Strambio-De-Castillia -UMass Chan Medical School
  • Steve Kuehn - Concord University, EPMA and Tephra Lab
  • Kevin Knupp - University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • Harold Shanafield & Chirag Shah - Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Facility Data Center, ORNL
• 2:50 - 2:55 Summarize breakout group charges
• 2:55 - 3:15 Break
• 3:15 - 4:15 Breakout groups sessions
  • Groups 1 and 2: Norlin Library, Room N410
  • Group 3: Norlin Library, Room M220
  • Group 4: Norlin Library, Room E113
• 4:20 - 5:00 Breakout group reports and preview tomorrow

Day 2, 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

• Theme: Persistent Identifier Schemes: What would you like to have from PID systems and why?
• 9:00 - 9:30 Participants arrive
• 9:30 - 9:45 Introduction to the day
• 9:45 - 10:45 Topical Talks: PID Systems and Initiatives (4 x 12 minutes)
  • Anita Bandrowski - SciCrunch, RRID Initiative
  • Ted Habermann - Metadata Game Changers
  • Mark Parsons & Ted Haberman- ARK overview
  • Shawna Sadler - ORCID (remote)
• 10:45 - 11:00 break
• 11:00 - 11:05 Summarize breakout group charges
• 11:15 - 12:00 Breakout group sessions
• Groups 1 and 2: Norlin Library, Room N410
• Group 3: Norlin Library, Room M220
• Group 4: Norlin Library, Room E113
• 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

Day 2, 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

• Theme: What is realistic/doable with constraints when assigning PIDs to research instruments and facilities
• 1:30 - 2:00 Breakout group reports
• 2:00 - 3:00 Topical Talks: Use Cases (5 x 10 minutes)
  • Kerstin Lehnert - Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (remote)
  • Daven Quinn - University of Wisconsin—Madison
  • Thayumanasamy Somasundaram - Florida State University
  • Andy Chitty - Oregon Health and Science University
  • Matthew Harp - Arizona State University Library
• 3:00 - 3:15 break
• 3:15 - 3:20 Summarize breakout group charges
• 3:20 - 4:20 Breakout group sessions
  • Groups 1 and 2: Norlin Library, Room N410
  • Group 3: Norlin Library, Room M220
  • Group 4: Norlin Library, Room E113
• 4:30 - 5:00 Breakout group reports and preview tomorrow

Day 3, 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

• Theme: How do we move forward and build upon these discussions with our communities? What are the big picture outcomes and concrete next steps for all of us?
• 9:00 - 9:30 Participants arrive
• 9:30 - 10:00 Review and prioritize outputs from day 1 and 2
• 10:00 - 11:00 Topical Talks: Looking Forward (5 x 10 minutes)
  • Kristina Vrouwenvelder - American Geophysical Union
  • Markus Stocker - TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (remote)
  • David Elbert - Johns Hopkins and Materials Research Data Alliance
  • Mark Parsons - NASA Chief Science Data Office
  • Claudius Mundoma - Stanford University
• 11:00 - 11:15 Break
• 11:15 - 12:15 Final discussion, review next steps for workshop report, and requested participant actions