 In some respect, it is for science and scholarly publishing, what Wikidata is for Wikimedia Foundation projects.Hosted by the University of California, San Diego, SciCrunch was also designed to help communities of researchers create their own portals to provide access to resources, databases and tools of relevance to their research areas 

Research Resource Identifiers (RRID) are supposed to be resource identifiers which are globally unique and persistent.They were introduced and are promoted by the Resource Identification Initiative.