Africa PID Alliance

14/09/2026

So, what exactly is DOCiD™?
DOCiD™ stands for Digital Object Container Identifier.
But what does that actually mean?
Unlike an identifier designed around a single digital object, DOCiD™ functions as a digital container that can aggregate and connect multiple research-related identifiers and metadata.

That means a DOCiD™ container can bring together things such as:

📄 Publications

🏛️ Institutions

💡 Creators

🔄 Knowledge Translation

📄 Grey Literature

📊 Datasets

💻 Software

🎥 Audio and video

🖼️ Images

💡 Patents

📋 Protocols

🌿 Indigenous Knowledge and cultural heritage records

🏛️ Institutional records

The result?

A more connected representation of a research or knowledge object and its relationships across its lifecycle.

DOCiD™ is about connecting the pieces of knowledge that already exist.

For more https://docid.africapidalliance.org/about-us

and FAQs https://docid.africapidalliance.org/faq

14/09/2026

SHOWCASING DOCiD™
🎬 Preserving Indigenous Knowledge & Screen Poetics in African Cinema

What does the systematic archive of indigenous language filmmaking look like in contemporary Nollywood scholarship?

We are proud to highlight the indexing of Prof. Osakue Stevenson Omoera's 30th Inaugural Lecture, ‘OROBOSA’: The Evolving Poetics of Benin-Language Film in Nollywood, now live on DOCiD™.

Delivered at Federal University Otuoke, this seminal work offers academic researchers, media sociologists, and Nollywood scholars an empirical and theoretical exploration of over four decades of Benin-language cinema.

Key Insights from the Publication:
The "Homefrontism" Paradigm: A theoretical framework advocating for African film studies rooted in indigenous mythologies, folklore, and performance traditions rather than Western screen templates.

Taxonomy & Evolutionary Waves: A categorization of Benin video-films across eight distinct genres and four historical waves of development (from NTA Benin origins to streaming platforms).

The Orange Economy & STEAM: A blueprint for leveraging indigenous visual media for language preservation, creative entrepreneurship, and youth empowerment within global cultural markets.

For scholars working on African cinema, media sociology, and cultural dynamics, this document provides a critical record of an indigenous visual culture asserting its place on the global stage.

📖 Explore and cite the full publication on DOCiD™:

This theory establishes the strength of film as an art, industry, and science. It is neatly documented in pages 23-24 of document 4 - ‘OROBOSA’: THE EVOLVING POETICS OF BENIN-LANGUAGE FILM IN NOLLYWOOD , attached herein as a publication

09/09/2026

Africa PID Alliance and University of Lagos Partner to Strengthen Research Visibility Through Digital Infrastructure through DOCiD™️

https://africapidalliance.org/africa-pid-alliance-and-university-of-lagos-partner-to-strengthen-research-visibility-through-digital-infrastructure-through-docid%ef%b8%8f/

07/09/2026

𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑫𝑶𝑪𝒊𝑫™

What did African self-representation on television look like before conflict rewrote the archive? For Liberia, we now have an answer.

The ELTV collection of the Liberian Broadcasting System, covering 1980 to 1991, is live on DOCiD™. Drawn from over 1,200 U-Matic tapes and digitised in collaboration with the University of Bayreuth and Filmstube Berlin, the collection offers scholars rare, unmediated access to Liberian-produced television: news, religion, education, sport, talk shows, and fiction, including the celebrated comedy Malawala Balawala

For historians, ethnographers, and media scholars working on West Africa, the archive fills a documentary void left by two civil wars. It is a record of a society that almost lost its own image of itself. Now it doesn't have to.

Explore the collection at: https://docid.africapidalliance.org/docid/20.500.14351%2Fcb69e80b6183a422e4e9

31/08/2026

Who owns our knowledge and how do we ensure it's trusted, discoverable and responsibly governed?

These are some of the questions we'll explore during our upcoming webinar with TWAS, AfLIA, and the Africa PID Alliance.
Discover how DOCiD™ is supporting FAIR and CARE implementation while strengthening research infrastructure and Indigenous Knowledge stewardship.

📅 21 September 2026
🕒 3:00 PM EAT | 2:00 PM CAT | 1:00 PM WAT | 12:00 PM GMT

🔗 Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Lv-q58DhQVutOULEnmEPfA

19/08/2026

🎥 The Recording Is Out!

Missed the OPAR Open Science Webinar with Joy Owango on DOCiD™ and the future of connected, trusted and globally discoverable African research?

The recording is now available! 🌍

https://doi.org/10.21428/359fb1d2.d8cf3667

▶️ Watch the recording and discover how DOCiD™ can strengthen research visibility, discoverability and connections across Africa’s research ecosystem.

Don’t miss it, watch now!

10/08/2026

🌍 Building Africa’s Trusted Research Infrastructure: From Fragmented Repositories to Connected Research with DOCiD™
Africa’s research output is growing, but much of this knowledge remains distributed across institutional repositories, disconnected systems, and platforms that do not always communicate with one another.
How can we move from fragmented repositories to a connected, trusted, and interoperable African research ecosystem?
Join us for an upcoming session in the Open Pan-African Repository (OPAR) Open Webinar Series, hosted by the Ubuntu Alliance, as we explore how DOCiD™ (Digital Object Container Identifier) can help strengthen Africa’s research infrastructure.
The webinar https://ubuntunet.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3aBcTlo0QE2_Td7q8zuKqA #/registration will explore how DOCiD™ can support:
🔹 Connecting institutional repositories, researchers, institutions, and research outputs
🔹 Improving the discoverability and visibility of African research
🔹 Strengthening persistent identification and interoperability across research systems
🔹 Connecting research outputs with researchers, institutions, projects, grants, datasets, and other scholarly assets
🔹 Bringing greater visibility to outputs that are often underrepresented in traditional scholarly infrastructure
🔹 Supporting trusted, machine-actionable research infrastructure aligned with Open Science principles
🔹 Building an increasingly connected African research ecosystem while strengthening interoperability with global research infrastructure
This conversation is particularly relevant for librarians, repository managers, researchers, research managers, NRENs, ICT professionals, university leaders, Open Science practitioners, and research infrastructure partners.
Africa does not simply need more repositories. We need infrastructure that enables our repositories and research systems to connect, communicate, and make African knowledge more visible, discoverable, and reusable.

28/07/2026

𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐎𝐂𝐢𝐃™️ 📚

Yesterday, the Africa PID Alliance conducted a DOCiD™️ usage training for United States International University - Africa (USIU-Africa), equipping participants with practical skills to document, manage and enhance the discoverability of Indigenous Knowledge and other research outputs using African-owned persistent digital infrastructure.

The session, facilitated by Nicholas Omino, Program Officer, and Morris Mutinda, Data Officer at TCC Africa, featured a hands-on demonstration of creating and managing DOCiD™️ records, showcasing how the platform supports effective research data management and long-term digital stewardship.

Interested in implementing DOCiD™️ at your institution? Watch our institutional walkthrough to learn how to get started: https://youtu.be/B-kmieiy-gY?si=T4pUdjTTVQu9-Jsk

24/07/2026

𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐎𝐂𝐢𝐃™ 𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐦 𝐋𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐬, 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚.
The Africa PID Alliance was pleased to facilitate a DOCiD™ usage training for the National Museum Lagos, demonstrating how African-owned persistent digital infrastructure can strengthen the documentation and visibility of Indigenous Knowledge and cultural heritage collections.

The session, led by Nicholas Omino, the Program Officer and Morris Mutinda, the Data Officer, highlighted how DOCiD™ (https://docid.africapidalliance.org/ ) enhances the discoverability, interoperability, and long-term preservation of valuable knowledge assets.

Learn how your institution can get started: https://youtu.be/B-kmieiy-gY?si=p3SnPaSA_z2GPotb

24/07/2026

📢 𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅!

𝑾𝒆𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓 𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 | 𝑹𝒆𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒁𝒊𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒘𝒆'𝒔 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑫𝑶𝑪𝒊𝑫™: A Trusted Persistent Identifier Framework for Open Science and Indigenous Knowledge Preservation.

Hosted by ZULC, ZimREN, DOCiD™, and The Africa PID Alliance, this session will explore how trusted persistent identifiers can strengthen institutional repositories, improve research discoverability, advance open science, and preserve indigenous knowledge for future generations.

📅 Friday, 31 July 2026
🕙 10:00 AM Zimbabwe (CAT)
💻 Virtual via Zoom

Whether you're a librarian, researcher, repository manager, ICT professional, policymaker, or student, this webinar offers practical insights into building trusted, interoperable, and sustainable digital research infrastructure.

🎟️ Click the link to register and be part of the conversation: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/7jjayxGPQFmeuoi0N-aq-A