From a DataCite Blog Post by John Chodacki, Trisha Cruse, Ed Pentz, and Laure Haak:
Over the past couple of years, a group of organizations with a shared purpose – California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID – invested our time and energy into launching the Org ID initiative, with the goal of defining requirements for an open, community-led organization identifier registry. The goal of our initiative has been to offer a transparent, accessible process that builds a better system for all of our communities. As the working group chair [Chodacki], I wanted to provide an update on this initiative and let you know where our efforts are headed.
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