The University of British Columbia (UBC) Library manages one of Canada's most active persistent identifier (PID) ecosystems, supporting a research enterprise of nearly 72, 000 students and close to 900 million in annual research funding. UBC Library mints and maintains nearly 320, 000 DOIs through its Open Collections discovery platform, which aggregates content from four open access repositories and crosswalks metadata to DataCite and Schema. org standards. Each DOI is enriched with UBC's ROR identifier to ensure consistent institutional attribution, with child and related RORs curated centrally and verified annually with the university's research office. As a member of both the DataCite-CA and ORCID-CA national consortia, UBC Library supports researcher disambiguation through ORCID integration, writing metadata back into researcher profiles via Borealis (Dataverse) and supporting graduate studies workflows that link dissertation records to supervisors by ORCID. By embedding PIDs into discovery, repository, and metadata workflows at scale, UBC Library strengthens research visibility, interoperability, and trust in the scholarly record — offering a practical model for institution-wide PID strategy through library leadership. This webinar took place on May 6, 2026 and was hosted by SPARC.
Eugene Barsky (Thu,) studied this question.