2022
de Castro, Pablo; Herb, Ulrich; Rothfritz, Laura; Schöpfel, Joachim
The role of research funders in the consolidation of the PID landscape Dokumentation
Knowledge Exchange 2022.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Schlagwörter: Case Study, Persistent Identifier, PID, PID landscape, Research funders, Research Funding Organizations
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abstract = {This case study is part of a series that has been produced within the study on “Risks and Trust in pursuit of a well-functioning PID infrastructure for research” commissioned by the Knowledge Exchange in July 2021. The main outcome of this work will be a report examining the current PID landscape with an emphasis on its risks and trust-related issues. This initial case study aims to explore the key role research funders are expected to play in the gradual adoption of an ever wider range of PIDs across European countries. The study examines matters such as the endorsement of PIDs by research funders and opportunities for cross-funder collaboration. In addition it looks at the potential differences in the technical workflows for PID adoption among others. The report, "Building the Plane as We Fly It”: the Promise of Persistent Identifiers, and remaining complementary case studies will be published soon.},
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de Castro, Pablo; Herb, Ulrich; Rothfritz, Laura; Schöpfel, Joachim
Some reflections on the current PID landscape – with an emphasis on risks and trust issues Artikel
In: Procedia Computer Science, Bd. 211, S. 28-35, 2022, ISSN: 18770509, (Part of special issue: 15th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Schlagwörter: Persistent Identifier, PID, PID landscape
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title = {Some reflections on the current PID landscape – with an emphasis on risks and trust issues},
author = { Pablo de Castro and Ulrich Herb and Laura Rothfritz and Joachim Schöpfel},
editor = { Miguel-Angel Sicilia and Pablo de Castro and Sadia Vancauwenbergh and Ed Simons and Orel Ognjen},
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year = {2022},
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abstract = {The current landscape around persistent identifiers (PIDs) keeps quickly evolving. Some PIDs like Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for publications and datasets or ORCIDs (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) for persistent author identification are already well-established, but there is also a whole additional range of emerging identifiers in the research area, often being implemented under competing approaches. These include among others identifiers for organisations (OrgIDs), for research grants (grantIDs), and projects (RAIDs), for research equipment and facilities (PIDINSTs) and for physical samples (IGSNs).
This is then a timely moment to explore the risks and trust-related issues associated with an ever wider implementation of PIDs. Following an earlier work on ‘risks and trust in pursuit of a well-functioning Persistent Identifier infrastructure for research’ conducted by the Knowledge Exchange (KE) Task & Finish Group on PIDs, the KE commissioned a study in July 2021 to look deeper into these issues. This work, undertaken by the signatories of this paper, will result in the publication of a report and a series of case studies on specific areas of current PID development. At the time the CRIS2022 Conference takes place the work is still underway, but already advanced enough to describe its methodology, early findings, landscape analysis and early recommendations. The full project results are expected to be published by the KE by the end of 2022.},
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This is then a timely moment to explore the risks and trust-related issues associated with an ever wider implementation of PIDs. Following an earlier work on ‘risks and trust in pursuit of a well-functioning Persistent Identifier infrastructure for research’ conducted by the Knowledge Exchange (KE) Task & Finish Group on PIDs, the KE commissioned a study in July 2021 to look deeper into these issues. This work, undertaken by the signatories of this paper, will result in the publication of a report and a series of case studies on specific areas of current PID development. At the time the CRIS2022 Conference takes place the work is still underway, but already advanced enough to describe its methodology, early findings, landscape analysis and early recommendations. The full project results are expected to be published by the KE by the end of 2022.
de Castro, Pablo; Herb, Ulrich; Rothfritz, Laura; Schöpfel, Joachim
Some reflections on the current PID landscape – with an emphasis on risks and trust issues Vortrag
12.05.2022.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Schlagwörter: Persistent Identifier, PID, PID landscape, Research Information Management
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title = {Some reflections on the current PID landscape – with an emphasis on risks and trust issues},
author = { Pablo de Castro and Ulrich Herb and Laura Rothfritz and Joachim Schöpfel},
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year = {2022},
date = {2022-05-12},
urldate = {2022-05-12},
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abstract = {The Knowledge Exchange (KE) is a European partnership formed by six key national organisations tasked with developing infrastructure and services to enable the use of digital technologies to improve higher education and research. These six organisations are CSC in Finland, CNRS in France, DeiC in Denmark, DFG in Germany, Jisc in the UK and SURF in the Netherlands. One specific area of activity for KE – as part of its collaborative work to support the development of digital infrastructures to enable open science – is the analysis of the quickly evolving persistent identifier (PID) landscape, and in particular the issues around risks and trust in pursuit of a wellfunctioning Persistent Identifier infrastructure for research. Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and their associated infrastructures are considered to be of vital importance for accountability, reproducibility and credibility of today’s research. PIDs foster transparency in methods and scientific output, identification and referencing of scientific outputs, and thus contribute to Open Science and Open Scholarship. Back in June 2021 the KE Task & Finish Group for PIDs Risk and Trust (see its composition here) commissioned an external study to explore the risks and trust issues associated with the current PID landscape. The winning bid, issued by a team of four consultants in Germany, France and the UK under the banner of Scidecode Science Consulting, included two members of the euroCRIS Board among the experts to carry out this analysis. An early project presentation was delivered on Dec 8th, 2021 within a webinar on PID implementation organised by ORCID and DataCite for the Research Information Management community in Poland. In this short presentation the project methodology, objectives and time schedule were briefly described. The project work – which will be fairly advanced by the time the CRIS2022 conference is held, hence the usefulness of having the opportunity to present its early findings for a discussion with the RIM community – is to be based on a number of interviews with PID experts in (mostly) the six KE member countries. The interviewees will represent the six main PID roles identified in the scoping document drafted by the KE T&F Group under the title "Risk and trust in pursuit of a well-functioning PID infrastructure for research" (these are PID Authority, PID Service Provider, PID Manager, PID Owner and PID User). Source: OpenAIRE “What is a Persistent Identifier?”, https://www.openaire.eu/what-is-a-persistent-identifier. Image licence CC BY 4.0 At the timmid-– most interviews have already been conducted as part of e of writing January 2022 the first stage of this project. Both well established PIDs such as DOIs, ORCID and ROR and other, emerging infrastructure for persistent identification (such as confe rence IDs or identifiers for research equipment and facilities) have been addressed in these conversations with the experts. Other more decentralised IDs such as handleIDs, URNs, ARKs or IGSNs have also been covered, providing a thorough insight into a rat her complex current PID landscape. A literature study was carried out by the project team prior to the interviews examining the issues of risk and trust, whose results were used to draft a default template for the questions to be asked to the experts. A number of case studies will be produced summarising some of the findings of these interviews, followed by a report that will address the most pressing issues related to risk and trust in the current PID landscape. As per the project timeline, a collecti on of case studies in PID implementation and operation should be close to completion by the time the CRIS2022 conference takes place. The proposed presentation at the conference aims to introduce these case studies and to provide a summary snapshot of the current PID landscape and its relevance for related initiatives like the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Emphasis will also be made on the key role of PIDs in Research Information Management Systems.},
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