<commit_before>---
layout: post
title: PIDs for conferences - your comments are welcome!
author: abirukou
date: '2018-04-19'
tags:
- conference id
---

*This blog post by guest author <NAME> was cross-posted from the [Crossref blog](https://www.crossref.org/blog/pids-for-conferences---your-comments-are-welcome/).*

*<NAME> is the Executive Editor for Computer Science at Springer Nature and is chair of the [Project PID Group])(https://www.crossref.org/working-groups/conferences-projects/) that has been working to establish a persistent identifier system and registry for scholarly conferences. Here Alex provides some background to the work and asks for input from the community:*

Roughly one year ago, Crossref and DataCite [started](https://www.crossref.org/blog/taking-the-con-out-of-conferences) a working group on conference and project identifiers. With this blog post, we would like to share the [specification](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1URIvkUpzcfjSd2YFIS-rdRIrOyrKSbFfhkdpGPRTAFI/edit) of conference metadata and Crossmark for proceedings and are inviting the broader community to comment.

### Why are conferences important?

One common misbelief is that most published research appears in journals. However, next to new ways of communication research results (blogs, presentations, …) and journals there are also other  publication options, like books, very important in humanities, or conference proceedings, which are very important in computer science and a couple of related disciplines. Conference proceedings are collections of journal-like papers, often undergoing a more competitive peer review process than in journals. For instance, looking at original research in computer science in Scopus published in CS in 2012-2016, 63% of articles appeared in proceedings, while only 37% were published in journals. [DBLP](http://dblp.uni-trier.de/statistics/distributionofpublicationtype), one of the most important indexing services in CS, lists more than two million conference papers organized in ~5,400 conference series.

So, while it is true that CS has a significant share of conference proceedings, conferences are also relevant in many other disciplines which do not publish formal proceedings. For instance, [inSPIRE](http://inspirehep.net/) contains ~23,000 conferences in high-energy physics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) publishes roughly 100 [proceedings](http://proceedings.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/conferenceproceedings.aspx) volumes annually. 

### Why do we need an open persistent ID for a conference or a conference series?
<commit_msg>added doi<commit_after>---
layout: post
title: PIDs for conferences - your comments are welcome!
author: abirukou
date: '2018-04-19'
tags:
- conference id
doi: 10.5438/prq9-ed42
---

*This blog post by guest author <NAME> was cross-posted from the [Crossref blog](https://www.crossref.org/blog/pids-for-conferences---your-comments-are-welcome/).*

*<NAME> is the Executive Editor for Computer Science at Springer Nature and is chair of the [Project PID Group])(https://www.crossref.org/working-groups/conferences-projects/) that has been working to establish a persistent identifier system and registry for scholarly conferences. Here Alex provides some background to the work and asks for input from the community:*

Roughly one year ago, Crossref and DataCite [started](https://www.crossref.org/blog/taking-the-con-out-of-conferences) a working group on conference and project identifiers. With this blog post, we would like to share the [specification](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1URIvkUpzcfjSd2YFIS-rdRIrOyrKSbFfhkdpGPRTAFI/edit) of conference metadata and Crossmark for proceedings and are inviting the broader community to comment.

### Why are conferences important?

One common misbelief is that most published research appears in journals. However, next to new ways of communication research results (blogs, presentations, …) and journals there are also other  publication options, like books, very important in humanities, or conference proceedings, which are very important in computer science and a couple of related disciplines. Conference proceedings are collections of journal-like papers, often undergoing a more competitive peer review process than in journals. For instance, looking at original research in computer science in Scopus published in CS in 2012-2016, 63% of articles appeared in proceedings, while only 37% were published in journals. [DBLP](http://dblp.uni-trier.de/statistics/distributionofpublicationtype), one of the most important indexing services in CS, lists more than two million conference papers organized in ~5,400 conference series.

So, while it is true that CS has a significant share of conference proceedings, conferences are also relevant in many other disciplines which do not publish formal proceedings. For instance, [inSPIRE](http://inspirehep.net/) contains ~23,000 conferences in high-energy physics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) publishes roughly 100 [proceedings](http://proceedings.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/conferenceproceedings.aspx) volumes annually. 

### Why do we need an open persistent ID for a conference or a conference series?

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