How DOCiD Connects Human Knowledge, AI Systems, and Research Trust
If you missed last month's NISO Plus Global/Online conference (September 16–17), you can still catch recordings of our opening and closing keynotes! Joy Owango of TCC Africa and the Africa PID Alliance got things started with a presentation appropriately entitled "From Persistent Identifiers to Persistent Intelligence: How DOCiD Connects Human Knowledge, AI Systems, and Research Trust Through Standards."
Owango's presentation introduces DOCiD—a new identifier from the Africa PID Alliance—and shows how it extends the role of persistent identifiers beyond identification toward persistent intelligence by creating standards-based digital containers that connect researchers, institutions, grants, datasets, Indigenous knowledge, grey literature, and scholarly outputs into interoperable knowledge graphs. She also demonstrates how standards-driven PID ecosystems can become the foundation for trustworthy AI, research integrity, and equitable scholarly communication, particularly in underrepresented knowledge systems across Africa and the Global South.