From: "Meadows, Alice" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 11:05:47 -0500 Apologies for crossposting - reminder about PIDapalooza 2018 PIDs’R’Us and if they’re you, too, please join us for the second PIDapalooza <https://pidapalooza.org/> in Girona, Spain on January 23-24, for a two-day celebration of persistent identifiers. Together, we will do the impossible - make a meeting about persistent identifiers and networked research fun! Brought to you by California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID, this year’s sessions are organized around eight broad topics: - PID myths - Achieving persistence - PIDs for emerging uses - Legacy PIDs - Bridging worlds - PIDagogy - PID stories - Kinds of persistence The program <https://pidapalooza18.sched.com/> is close to final and there’s something for everyone - from Do Researchers Need to Care about PID Systems? <https://pidapalooza18.sched.com/event/Cwmj/do-researchers-need-to-care-about-pid-systems> to Stories from the PID Roadies: Scholix <https://pidapalooza18.sched.com/event/Cwml/stories-from-the-pid-roadies-scholix>; and from The Bollockschain and other PID Hallucinations <https://pidapalooza18.sched.com/event/CwnA/the-bollockschain-and-other-pid-hallucinations> to #ResInfoCitizenshipIs? <https://pidapalooza18.sched.com/event/Cwmk/resinfocitizenshipis#> There will also be plenaries by Johanna McEntyre <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1611-6935> on As a [biologist] I want to [reuse and remix data] so that I can [do my research] <https://pidapalooza18.sched.com/event/CwnI/as-a-biologist-i-want-to-reuse-and-remix-data-so-that-i-can-do-my-research> and Melissa Haendel <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9114-8737> (title to be confirmed). With more than half the places already booked now’s the time to register <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pidapalooza-2018-registration-35176831851> - we hope to see you there! Alice Meadows Director of Community Engagement & Support, ORCID [log in to unmask] +1 857-559-3337 <(857)%20559-3337> orcid.org/0000-0003-2161-3781