status: Recognised & Endorsed

Chair (s): Louise Darroch, Markus Stocker, Rolf Krahl, Ted Habermann

Group Email: [group_email]

Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker


Webinar - Persistent Identification of Instruments - 19 May 2022

The Persistent Identification of Instruments Working Group seeks to explore a community-driven solution for globally unique identification of measuring instruments operated in the sciences.

 

Measuring instruments, such as sensors used in environmental science, DNA sequencers used in life sciences or laboratory engines used for medical domains, are widespread in most fields of applied sciences. The ability to link an active instrument (instance) with an instrument type and with the broader context in which the instrument operates (including generated data, other instruments and platforms, people and manufacturers, etc.) is critical, especially for automated processing of such contextual information and for the interpretation of generated data.

 

The identification and description of instrument models and instances is gaining momentum. Several disciplines are using established controlled vocabularies (standardised terms) to identify devices. Advances in Semantic Sensor Web technologies (encodings of sensor descriptions that are machine-readable and interoperable) have resulted in new instrument metadata schemas. Some Persistent Identifiers (PIDs), such as Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) or Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are already being utilised.

 

Our group aims to build on these developments and establish a cross-discipline, operational solution for the unique and lasting identification of measuring instruments actively operated in the sciences.

 

Objectives

  • Explore the use of a globally unique solution to persistently identify active measuring instruments
  • Recommend a metadata profile to describe instruments that harmonises existing identification standards and complements existing metadata schemas
  • Explore methodology/technology to register and resolve the new PID
  • Operationalise the solution by engaging existing PID infrastructure providers, instrument developers and manufacturers, as well as instrument database providers

Collaborative Notes Link:

Persistent Identification of Instruments: PIDINST Adoption - Google Docs

 

Current activities

 

The WG collects use cases for persistent identification of instruments, aligns the collected metadata, and develops a metadata schema. 

 

The schema is available on GitHub at https://github.com/rdawg-pidinst/schema and we encourage comments from the community.

 

So far, we have obtained the following use cases (Last update: March 2019).

  1. GEOFON by Javier Quinteros (November 2017)
  2. HZB by Rolf Krahl (November 2017)
  3. NIF by Veah Tapat et al. (December 2017)
  4. IREA-CNR by Alessandro Oggioni et al. (January 2018)
  5. SENSOR.awi.de by Ana Macario et al. (April 2018)
  6. Marine SWE by Robert Huber et al. (May 2018)
  7. ORCID by Tom Demeranville (May 2018)
  8. ICOS Carbon Portal by Claudio D’Onofrio et al. (June 2018)
  9. BODC by Louise Darroch et al. (July 2018)
  10. ESO by Dominic Bordelon et al. (August 2018)
  11. FZJ Central Library (JLSRF) by Claudia Frick (September 2018)
  12. PANGAEA by Anusuriya Devaraju et al. (September 2018)
  13. EuroGOOS/PSMSL/GLOSS by Louise Darroch (October 2018)
  14. LTER-Europe by Alessandro Oggioni et al. (October 2018)
  15. UK Polar Data Centre by Alex Tate (February 2019)

 

Posts

05
September
2023

Monthly meeting cancelled

by Markus Stocker

Dear all, Due to holidays, we are cancelling the meeting this month. Cheers, m.
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August
2023

Next call, Wed August 2 at 2 pm UTC

by Markus Stocker

Dear all, we will have our next call tomorrow, August 2 at 2 pm UTC, at https://tib-eu.webex.com/meet/markus.stocker with notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RRO5YQ-mHWV4hb5Xixg89_HWDvgYN2lUwHHz.... Cheers, m.
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July
2023

Next call, July 5, 7 am UTC

by Markus Stocker

Dear all, We meet tomorrow, Wed July 5 at 7 am UTC. Link: https://tib-eu.webex.com/meet/markus.stocker Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RRO5YQ-mHWV4hb5Xixg89_HWDvgYN2lUwHHz... Apologies for late notice. Cheers, m.
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June
2023

Next meeting, Wed, June 7 at 2 pm UTC

by Markus Stocker

Dear all, we will have our next meeting tomorrow at the usual location https://tib-eu.webex.com/meet/markus.stocker and with notes here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RRO5YQ-mHWV4hb5Xixg89_HWDvgYN2lUwHHz... Cheers, m.
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15
May
2023

New Data Type Implementation

by Sven Bingert

Dear PIDInst Group, we update our Kernel Information Profile (KIP) to fit to the schema V1.0 from GitHub. The KIP can be found here: https://dtr-test.pidconsortium.net/#objects/21.T11148/17ce618137e697852ea6 But more interesting is the validation schema which can be found here: http://typeapi.pidconsortium.net/dtype/schema/JSON/21.T11148/17ce618137e...
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02
May
2023

Next meeting, Wed, May 3 at 7 am UTC

by Markus Stocker

Dear all, Our next meeting in a few hours from now at https://tib-eu.webex.com/meet/markus.stocker with notes here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RRO5YQ-mHWV4hb5Xixg89_HWDvgYN2lUwHHz... Cheers, m.
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06
April
2023

Best Practices for Instrument Identifiers Australasia

by Siobhann McCafferty

Dear PID-Inst folks, The Australasian Identifiers for Instruments Community of Practice (i4iOZ ) have published a Best Practices document: https://zenodo.org/record/7759201#.ZBrSVnZBybg We hope this will add to uptake and interest in this area and welcome any feedback from yourselves and the wider community. Best, - Siobhann Siobhann McCafferty Platforms Projects Coordinator Project Manager: PIDs Pronouns: she/her/hers Why pronouns are important
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April
2023

Next call tomorrow, Wed, April 5 at 2 pm UTC

by Markus Stocker

Dear all, We will have our next call as stated in the subject line. Connection: https://tib-eu.webex.com/meet/markus.stocker Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RRO5YQ-mHWV4hb5Xixg89_HWDvgYN2lUwHHz... @Tibor and @Louise: Would be great if you have time to join so that we can finalize the open issues on ePIC. Cheers, m.
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February
2023

Next call, Wed, March 1, 8 am UTC

by Markus Stocker

Dear all, We will have our next call tomorrow at: https://tib-eu.webex.com/meet/markus.stocker Notes at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RRO5YQ-mHWV4hb5Xixg89_HWDvgYN2lUwHHz... Cheers, m.
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02
February
2023

Japanese Translation of PIDINST white paper

by Takaaki Aoki

Dear PIDINST colleagues, A small Japanese group translated the PIDINST white paper into Japanese. A WG blonging to RDUF (Research Data Utilization Forum) are learning how tangible research objects (including research instruments, materials, bio samples, etc.) can be identified in digital and referred from not only their lab or institute but also the world. Now, the the translated materials are maintained on github forked from the original repository,
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