Dear RDA WG members,
We have been a group of professional enthusiasts working on the recognition of hardware and its engineering inside the research process, and we are starting a novel RDA interest group with the first objective to adapt FAIR principles for (open) hardware. We would be so grateful if you would share your experience and expertise with us, and would be delighted if you would be interested in joining the group: https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/fair-principles-research-hardware.
From what I read, your group has been mostly interested in instruments one can buy, while we are mostly interested in self-built instruments. It seems to me the two approaches are complementary to allow for a better reproducibility in the research process.
Best regards,
Julien Colomb=
20
Dec
2021
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Author: Rolf Krahl
Date: 20 Dec, 2021
Dear Julien,
Dear Julien,
Am Montag, 20. Dezember 2021, 14:01:00 CET schrieb juliencolomb via Persistent Identification of Instruments WG:
>
> We have been a group of professional enthusiasts working on the
> recognition of hardware and its engineering inside the research
> process, and we are starting a novel RDA interest group with the
> first objective to adapt FAIR principles for (open) hardware.
Interesting! Do you plan to submit a session proposal for the
upcoming plenary in June?
That is not entirely correct. Having persistent identifiers is
equally relevant for commercial off-the-shelf instruments as for
self-built ones. In fact, the instruments that I assign DOIs for at
HZB are mostly designed and built by ourselves.
But I believe, there is another aspect where the two approaches are
complementary: as far as I understand, your IG is mostly cencerned
with instrument designs, e.g. instrument types. The PIDINST approach
considers individual physical instances. Nevertheless, I believe
there is quite some overlap of interest, in particular when it comes
to instrument description. So, we should keep in contact.
Best regards,
Rolf
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Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489 Berlin
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