Deliverables

A series of whitepapers and implementation plans which may include the following

General ecosystem description

A whitepaper outlining the general approach and solution. White Paper: Decentralized Resource Identifiers in the Research Landscape

Current use of identifiers in the research ecosystem

Description of current state of the art models e.g. DOI, ORCiD, Genbank accession numbers etc. - contribution being made to academic publication

Use cases and requirements

Descriptions of potential use cases and ecosystem requirements. In process on google docs

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Pros/Cons description of DID solutions

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Examples of ecosystem requirements to help organizations form their own

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Examples of governance structures for organizations that will enable the resource identifiers. See ToIP Governance Metamodel Specification

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A workflow of how an organization would build this ecosystem and what a potential ecosystem end would look like

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Technical architectures with guidance on how to determine costs