Data sharing, data resilience, and PID strategies in the US – connecting with our community in Washington, DC

How do we ensure a robust and sustainable environment for research data management and sharing? What infrastructure, policies, and community engagement are needed to make that vision a reality? To address these questions, we brought together the US research data management (RDM) community in Washington, DC, for a DataCite Connect event collocated with an RDA-US community gathering. A diverse group of over 30 participants came together, including DataCite community members as well as RDA-US colleagues, to network, discuss shared challenges, and learn from one another’s experiences. The event convened a panel of speakers to examine the current landscape of research data in the US. It focused on the need for a resilient data ecosystem, highlighting challenges around support for research data management costs, and emphasising the role that open research infrastructure plays in data discovery and reuse through persistent identifiers (PIDs) and rich metadata provision.