Scientists and scholars, whom the LIS community serves, will benefit immensely if all researchers and institutions have unique identifiers (such as ORCID iD for individuals and doi for documents). As a scientometricist, I have faced the problem of disambiguation of names of authors and institutions for more than three decades.. A meeting on this subject is scheduled to take place in Catalonia (Spain) in January next year. Here is a message from Ms Alice Meadows. Regards. Arun From: "Meadows, Alice" Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 11:59:12 -0400 I'm delighted to announce the second PIDapalooza - the open festival for scholarly research persistent identifiers (PIDs), organized by California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID - which will take place in Girona, Spain on January 23-24, 2018. The program will include a mixture of PID demos, workshops, brainstorming, updates on the state of the art, and more -- and we invite your contributions. The program committee will review all suggestions received by September 18 and we’ll let you know whether you’ve been successful by the first week of October. What is PIDapalooza? It is a place to come share your ideas with a crowd of like-minded persistent identifier innovators, and help us spread the word about PIDs in your community! It will be a very laid-back and welcoming atmosphere with energetic and exciting rapid fire sessions with both a sociable and serious tone. PIDapalooza 2018 will be just like the first one in Reykjavik, but even better! Where: Auditori Palau de Congressos de Girona, Passeig de la Devesa, 35, Girona, Catalonia, Spain When: 23rd and 24th January 2018 Short form to submit session(s). Deadline: September 18 We’ll be posting more information about the festival lineup on the PIDapalooza website and on Twitter (@PIDapalooza) in the coming weeks. We hope to see you in January! Alice Meadows Director of Community Engagement & Support, ORCID a.meadows@orcid.org +1 857-559-3337 orcid.org/0000-0003-2161-3781 -- Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.