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Introduction

Whitepaper on GitHub

Previous version whitepaper draft on google docs.

In academia there is a need to be able to identify resources used by the community such as culture collections, instruments, projects and work packages, collaborative groups, datasets etc. Current systems of resource identification are difficult to establish and DIDs have the potential to allow more widespread uptake and use of permanent identifiers.

For more information about this White Paper please go to the Internet of Research Ecosystem Task Force wiki page.

White Paper navigation structure

  • Overview
  • Current systems challenges
    • Centralization
    • Lack of Interoperability
    • Fragmentation
    • Verifiability and trust
    • High cost
  • Opportunity and solution
    • Use case 1
    • Use case 2
    • Use case 3
  • Decentralized Resource Identifier
    • Guiding principles
    • Governance examples
    • Semantics
    • Training, documentation and promotion
    • Technologies
      • W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)
      • KERI
      • ISCC
      • The Ceramic Protocol
      • The Verifiable Credentials trust triangle
      • Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT)


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