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claudio donofrio

Claudio d'Onofrio

Project coordinator

claudio donofrio

Persistent identification of instrument

Author

  • Markus Stocker
  • Louise Darroch
  • Rolf Krahl
  • Ted Habermann
  • Anusuriya Devaraju
  • Ulrich Schwardmann
  • Claudio D’onofrio
  • Ingemar Häggström

Summary, in English

Instruments play an essential role in creating research data. Given the importance of instruments and associated metadata to the assessment of data quality and data reuse, globally unique, persistent and resolvable identification of instruments is crucial. The Research Data Alliance Working Group Persistent Identification of Instruments (PIDINST) developed a community-driven solution for persistent identification of instruments which we present and discuss in this paper. Based on an analysis of 10 use cases, PIDINST developed a metadata schema and prototyped schema implementation with DataCite and ePIC as representative persistent identifier infrastructures and with HZB (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie) and BODC (British Oceanographic Data Centre) as representative institutional instrument providers. These implementations demonstrate the viability of the proposed solution in practice. Moving forward, PIDINST will further catalyse adoption and consolidate the schema by addressing new stakeholder requirements.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • ICOS Sweden

Publishing year

2020

Language

English

Publication/Series

Data Science Journal

Volume

19

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Committee on Data for Science and Technology

Topic

  • Information Studies

Keywords

  • DOI
  • Handle
  • Instruments
  • Metadata
  • Persistent Identification

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1683-1470