Championing PIDs and Open Science at UC3
Hello! My name is Adam Buttrick and I’m excited to be joining the UC3 team to lead its portfolio of persistent identifier-focused products and services.
Prior to joining UC3, while based at Crossref, I had the privilege to help build a new persistent identifier service, the Research Organization Registry (ROR). My role in this project, scaling ROR’s data infrastructure to support community contributions from thousands of organizations and diverse sources, was a fast-paced journey at the intersection of data science, product management, and community engagement on a global scale. In collaboration with my predecessor, Maria Gould, and with colleagues from Crossref and DataCite, we took ROR from a fledgling service to being a central feature of national level policy in many countries, as well as the institutional model in widely-used services like ORCID and OpenAlex. This work required constant engagement with universities, governments, and funders from around the world and has given me a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities in building a future based on open infrastructure and open research information.
As I was witness to in my work on ROR and was constantly cited to me by other organizations, the University of California plays a vital role in the success of so many transformative projects and initiatives. I thus leapt at the chance to help advance these goals and all the other important, necessary work done by the UC system. I’m eager to be a part of this long and storied tradition!
If you’d like to connect or discuss opportunities to collaborate, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me – adam.buttrick@ucop.edu. Here’s to the next chapter and here’s to advancing all things PIDs and open science!
