24–25 Nov 2026
Europe/Berlin timezone

PIDs before publication: putting the pid4cat registry into operation

25 Nov 2026, 10:50
10m
Simon Bolivar Saal (Stabi Berlin, Potsdamer Straße)

Simon Bolivar Saal

Stabi Berlin, Potsdamer Straße

Speaker

Dr David Linke (Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e.V. (LIKAT), Rostock, Germany)

Description

pid4cat closes the gap between lab systems and the global PID graph. It mints Handle.Net-based identifiers where samples originate: in the ELN, not much later at publication time. It gives every PID metadata: status, type, curation contact, license, change history and DataCite-like relations to other PIDs. Partners manage their own namespace. A Handle server, in production since 2024, is extended with a new PID-registry API service. The system is open source, domain-agnostic, and looks for adopters beyond catalysis.

background NFDI4Cat, member of section "Metadata, Terminologies and Provenance"

Author

Dr David Linke (Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e.V. (LIKAT), Rostock, Germany)

Co-author

Dr Preston Rodrigues (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS))

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