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PIDapalooza: How to get heritage organisations to start using PIDs: a tale of two countries, about two national PID projects:

• Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure in UK

o   Next step: write a guide to help with choosing persistent identifiers (until October 2021)

o   Contact person: Frances Madden (British Library), Research Identifiers Lead & overseeing the BL's contribution to the FREYA project

• Persistent Identifier Guide in The Netherlands

o   they wrote documentation & a guide for helping institutions choose a PID

o   ARK is not among the options

o   Contact person: Remco van Veenendaal (National Archives of the Netherlands), Project Manager Persistent Identifier project

It might be a good idea for the Outreach group to get involved and contact the people involved in the 2 projects, so that ARK gets included in the list of possible options for PID. If people don’t hear about it, they’re never going to choose it.

Furthermore, they also mentioned a European project that also had as a delivery a guide for choosing PIDs: FREYA Project (Connected Open Identifiers for Discovery, Access and Use of Research Resources) - Guides to Choosing Persistent Identifiers - Version 3 (July 2020), where, once again, ARK is not among the options. Even though the project seems to be finished, someone from the Outreach group could still inquire whether a new version of the guide is possible and try to include ARK in the list.