We have announced an agreement with the Training Centre in Communication (TCC – Africa) to support the identification of organization affiliations to help improve the tracking of research output from African institutions. This strategic collaboration aims to improve the matching of organizations with research outputs for institutions affiliated with the Africa PID Alliance.
TCC Africa’s Open Infrastructure program includes the Africa PID Alliance, whose mission is to secure the future of African innovation, indigenous knowledge, and cultural heritage. It supports scientists and inventors in disseminating and commercializing their research innovations.
CCC’s leading persistent identifier (PID)-based solution, Ringgold, contains more than 750,000 records of global organizations engaged in scholarly research. TCC Africa will use a subset of Ringgold organization data within the Digital Object Container Identifier (DOCiD). CCC will incorporate updates to African institutions in the Ringgold database.
“This collaboration with TCC Africa demonstrates CCC’s commitment to backing initiatives that drive further adoption of PIDs, enable interoperability across internal and external systems, and provide researchers, librarians, organizations, and other users with the flexibility to select the identifier system(s) that best fit their needs.”
– Emily Sheahan, Vice President & Managing Director, CCC.