status: Completed
Chair (s): Tobias Weigel, Tim DiLauro
Group Email: [group_email]
Secretariat Liaison: Contact Enquiries email
In complex data domains, unique and persistent identifiers (PIDs) associated with specific information are the core of proper data management and access. They can be used to give every data object (including collection objects) an identity that enables referring to the data resources and metadata and, additionally, to prove integrity, authenticity and other attributes. But this requires a PID to be uniquely associated with specific types of information, and those types and their association with PIDs must be well managed. Therefore it is useful to specify a framework for information types, to start agreeing on some essential types, and to define a process by which other types can be integrated. The framework provides generic facilities only, which can and must be employed by specific communities to support their needs. The focus of the working group therefore is on cross-community concerns.
The Published Output can be cited this way: dx.doi.org/10.15497/FDAA09D5-5ED0-403D-B97A-2675E1EBE786
Deliverables now available!
The formal RDA output package can be found here.
- The API Javadocs
- The prototype source code:
git clone git@github.com:TobiasWeigel/rdapit.git - A final report including the original use case documents
Termination at RDA P4 Amsterdam
The PID Information Types WG was set to terminate after 18 months of activity at the Amsterdam 4th RDA Plenary. This was the last session of the WG with a look at the final deliverables and discussion of already emerging future activities within RDA.
After P4, the WG entered the official RDA outcomes process as one of the first groups to do so. The deliverables as listed above were bundled in a package and submitted.
I have some questions. Who shall I contact?
Simply contact one of the WG chairs, Timothy DiLauro or Tobias Weigel.
What about follow-up activities?
DKRZ is active in furthering the outcoms of PIT and the general concepts of information types and type registries within the EUDAT project and the ESGF infrastructure. Other initiatives such as the Deep Carbon Observatory and the Materials Genome Initiative innovation infrastructure as represented in the Materials Data IG have also indicated potential interest. Activities will also continue within RDA with possible follow-up WGs.
Posts
Call for Papers: Research Data Alliance Results Special Collection
View the Data Science Journal special collection https://datascience.codata.org/collections/special/research-data-alliance-results/ Continuous submission open at https://datascience.codata.org/about/submissions/.0 | Add new comment
Call for Papers - Special Issue "20 Years of Persistent Identifiers"
--- Apologies for cross-postings --- Dear colleagues, we would like to invite you to consider publishing some of your work in an upcoming Special Issue of the Data Science Journal (DSJ) under the topic "20 Years of Persistent Identifiers - Where do we go next?". The submission deadline is 31 August 2016. Persistent identifiers (PID) for scholarly resources have been around now for more than 20 years. Since the initial launch of the Handle.net we have seen a proliferation of PID into many use cases. Some PID0 | Add new comment
Data Fabric and PIT updates
Dear DF and PIT, I understand that there have been some questions during one of the Data Fabric session at P7 today on the status and future of the PIT developments. Since PIT is considered to be part of the overall Data Fabric approach, I would like to take this opportunity to give a few essential updates here that shed some light on the more recent activities since the end of the WG lifetime: - The PIT API and demonstrator are available as an RDA recommendation and I am quite happy to see that there are a couple of adoption projects0 | Add new comment
Fwd: 20 years of persistent identifiers - where do we go next? EGU 2016 - Call for Abstracts
* Apologies for cross-posting * Dear Colleagues, Even though EGU 2016 still seems to be a long way off, we would like to invite you to submit abstracts to the EGU General Assembly 2016 in Vienna (17-22 April 2016). In particular, we would like to invite you to submit abstracts to the following session: 20 years of persistent identifiers - where do we go next? (ESSI2.6/GI1.6) http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/217390 | Add new comment
PID Collections WG case statement available for comments
Dear all, we want to draw your attention to the case statement of the proposed PID Collections WG, which is now available for public comment on the RDA websites: https://rd-alliance.org/group/pid-collections-wg/case-statement/pid-coll... The PID Collections WG will focus on solutions for managing object collections where each object and also the collection itself may bear0 | Add new comment
Persistent Identifiers: Enabling Services for Data Intensive Research
We are happy to announce the following event Persistent Identifiers: Enabling Services for Data Intensive Research a meeting organized by DataCite and EPIC on Monday, September 21, 2015 from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM (CEST) at Amphitheatre Hermite, Institute Henri Poincaré, 11 rue Pierre et MarieCurie, Paris, France0 | Add new comment
Last chance to get a P6 breakout
The deadline for RDA Plenary 6 breakout session (23-25 Sept 2015) application is fast approaching. You have until 20th June 2015 to submit your request for a meeting space in Paris - https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/sixth-plenary/call-session-... Working & Interest groups as well as representatives from BoFs will be invited to share their group updates and interact with RDA members on 230 | Add new comment
PID Information Types report revised and ready for final submit
Dear all, the PID Information Types WG output has undergone open RDA community review. The revised document addressing the points made on the forums and via email is attached; unless there are further comments, we will submit this to TAB in the coming days to finalize the outcome process (also including the demonstrator, documentation etc.). Best, Tobias -- Tobias Weigel Abteilung Datenmanagement Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH (DKRZ) Bundesstraße 45 a • 20146 Hamburg • Germany Phone: +49 40 460094-1040 | Add new comment
Whitepaper: Enhancing open data with identifiers | Guides | Open Data Institute
(Apologies for cross-posting) A white paper by ODI and Thomson Reuters that may be relevant to many RDA IG/WGs: http://theodi.org/guides/data-identifiers-white-paper Cheers, Andrea0 | Add new comment
Draft of final report - see you at the P4 in Amsterdam!
Dear all, the 4th RDA Plenary is moving closer and with it the official end of our working group. As announced a couple of weeks ago, we have been working on a final report that summarizes the working group goals, process and outcomes. Please find the draft of the report attached. We are very much open to comments, both via this list as well as in person at the plenary. We have two session slots at the plenary. On Monday afternoon, 15:30-17:00, we will give an introduction and review of the WG work and0 | Add new comment