Research Infrastructure Communities
Lyrasis serves as the US community home for consortial programs designed to help organizations of all kinds to leverage best practices for open research infrastructure:
The ORCID US Community is a national consortium and community of practice for nonprofit organizations that are members of ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor Identifier).
The Lyrasis DataCite US Community is a national consortium and community of practice for nonprofit organizations assigning DataCite DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) to their local research and scholarly materials.
RAiD (Research Activity Identifier) is a persistent identifier and global registry for identifying, tracking and sharing research projects.