Engaging with Your Community to Effect Change: An Irish Case Study - The Scholarly Kitchen

"...Like much technology (and, indeed, social media), PIDs are networked entities: the more they’re used, the more everyone benefits (just like, say, cell phones or Facebook), which makes getting everyone on board even more important. So, with the help of the National Open Research Forum (NORF) and their PID Task Force, one of the first things we did in Ireland was to identify the different stakeholders (both organizational and individual) whose support we knew would be essential. We wanted to make sure that we didn’t just hear from the usual suspects — such as the larger organizations — but also from the long tail of smaller and/or more specialist institutions. And we also wanted to encourage both a top-down and bottom-up approach, as we’ve found this to be very successful in the past..."