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The Persistent Identification of Instruments Working Group formulated the PIDINST metadata schema for the identification and description of instruments. This schema is formulated in a technology agnostic way, just defining the attributes of the instrument to be considered.
Now, more and more applications that deal with scientific metadata make use of schema.org. So naturally, the question arises, how to represent an instrument description in schema.org, based on the PIDINST schema? A related question is how to establish the link from a description of a dataset expressed in schema.org to the instrument that collected the data? It turns out that both are not straightforward to answer. Very different approaches are used in the community. Some standardization seems to be badly needed.
The RDA Persistent Identification of Instruments Working Group is asked to come up with a recommendation. In this session we want to present and discuss different approaches.

1. Welcome and Intro – Rolf Krahl (5 min.)
2. Contributions: how to describe instruments and how to link datasets to instruments using schema.org?
   1. Representing instruments in the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) – Stephen Richard (10 min.)
   2. Instruments in the Helmholtz Knowledge Graph – Lucas Lamparter (10 min.)
   3. Using schema.org with PIDINST – Renaud Duyme (10 min.)
3. Discussion – all (45 min.)
4. Conclusion: are we able to give a recommendation? – all (10 min.)

• Managers of scientific instruments that want to represent their instrument description in schema.org
• Data managers that want to link datasets with the instrument that collected the data
• Data managers that want to include scientific instruments in a knowledge graph