Project THOR is coming to a close. Our final event was held in Italy on 15 November at ‘La Sapienza’ – the University of Rome – just a stone’s throw from Michelangelo’s impressive sculpture of Moses in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli. The day combined a retrospective review of THOR’s achievements and impact with a forward-looking perspective on the wider persistent identifier (PID) landscape.

Come and join us at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” in Rome, Italy, on November 15th 2017 to learn about how we have advanced the state of the art in persistent identifiers. You will find out about how THOR partners have developed new tools to connect identifiers across systems, to link people, datasets, samples, reactions and more.

In the Research Graph project, we are connecting research data to publications, grants and researcher profiles. The core component is the Switchboard software [1] by the Research Data Alliance DDRI working group, and now this system has a new capability to exchange data with the VIVO platform. The group has received significant input from Dryad, DataCite, CERN, ANDS and other THOR project partners.

Come and join us at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” in Rome, Italy, on November 15th 2017 to learn about how we have advanced the state of the art in persistent identifiers. You will find out about how THOR partners have developed new tools to connect identifiers across systems, to link people, datasets, samples, reactions and more.

The third and final edition of the THOR Bootcamp will start in 3 weeks in the beautiful city Budapest. We gathered PID experts from THOR project partner organizations, Library and Information Centre of Hungarian Academy of Science, Centre for Social Sciences of Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the University of Debrecen, to bring a full agenda for our participants.

The THOR project team are delighted to announce that the project final event will take place at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” in Rome, Italy, on November 15th 2017. Come and join us in the Eternal City to learn about how we have advanced the state of the art in persistent identifiers.

This guest blog post has been written by Mieneke van der Salm, Information Specialist at Leiden University Libraries in the Netherlands and has been cross-posted from The Connected Leiden Researcher. On June 22, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) organised an information session on the Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) and its benefits and uses.

Following the release of the THOR dashboard last year, conversations with internal users, stakeholders and even the project’s reviewers have highlighted additional data and features that might serve to make the dashboard more comprehensive for the wider PID community. At the same time, available resources have changed, and THOR’s own interests have evolved as the project has progressed.

Earlier this year, the H2020 projects THOR and ENVRIplus joined forces and organised a bootcamp focusing on integrating ORCID in environmental research infrastructures. The bootcamp was inspired by the ORCID integrations carried out by THOR partners earlier in the project. Persistent identifiers, including ORCID iDs, are important elements of any research infrastructure.

Magyarország! We are happy to announce that the THOR Bootcamp tour bus is on its way to Budapest! On September 28 and 29th, the next and final event of the series will be hosted in collaboration with our friends at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DataCite member and ORCID integrator), taking place on its campus by the bank of river Danube, overlooking the magnificent Széchenyi Chain Bridge.