Speaker
Description
Persistent identifiers (PIDs) such as DOIs, RORs and ORCID iDs were originally conceived for registration in publication workflows. Newer PIDs – IGSN IDs, pidinsts and RAiDs – now support experimental workflows during the active phase of research.
Awareness of the value of PIDs in active workflows is growing. The distinction between registration and experimental documentation functions is central to current debates on which PID types are most appropriate for facilities, and is being explored in initiatives such as the US RAiD pilot. This presentation introduces these discussions and shows how different PIDs can best be used in different contexts.
We will show how comprehensive PID use enables RSpace to orchestrate FAIR workflows across research infrastructures. RSpace manages data and documents experiments in the active research phase, and integrates with over 20 tools across planning, active and sharing/archiving phases. It supports ORCID and ROR for attribution, and now also IGSN IDs for samples, PIDINST for instruments, and RAiDs for projects. This links persistent identification of samples, instruments and projects with individual and organisational attribution in the context of active experimental work.
All development is workflow- rather than tool-specific, guided by the principle of Vertical Interoperability – streamlined passage of data and metadata across the research lifecycle. We collaborate with developers of DMPs, repositories and other tools to maintain PID associations as data move between systems, and will highlight the role of PIDs in enabling interoperability between research tools.