SPEAKERS

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are central to the advancement of open science goals and FAIR data principles. PIDs provide a mechanism to name, distribute, link to, and track data sets, people, institutions, facilities, instruments, and other research objects over time. Persistent identification of research facilities and instruments has the potential to increase the transparency and replicability of scientific research, and to enable easier tracking of the uses and impacts of these facilities and instruments. This presentation will outline insights and lessons learned from an NSF-funded Research Coordination Network (RCN) project centered on developing and communicating community-based recommendations for assigning PIDs to research facilities and instruments.

Presenters will share findings from this three-year NSF project including the results from virtual and in-person stakeholder workshops, reasons why there is a need for national and international-level PID adoption strategies for research facilities and instruments, and approaches individuals can take to advance this work at their own institutions. This presentation aims to inform the Expert Finder and research information systems community on how the project's recommendations can be implemented in these systems and leverage interdisciplinary expertise to advance open and networked science. In particular, use of PIDs for research facilities and instruments in expert finder and research information systems has the potential to promote enhanced discovery and impact tracking of these facilities and instruments, which were key use cases identified by participants from a number of stakeholder groups throughout the project activities. The presentation seeks to connect project recommendations based on these use cases to existing and future implementations of PIDs for research facilities and instruments in the expert finder and research information systems community.