status: Recognised & Endorsed
Chair (s): Louise Darroch, Markus Stocker, Rolf Krahl, Ted Habermann
Group Email: [group_email]
Secretariat Liaison: [field_secretariat_liaison]
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).
- GEOFON by Javier Quinteros (November 2017)
- HZB by Rolf Krahl (November 2017)
- NIF by Veah Tapat et al. (December 2017)
- IREA-CNR by Alessandro Oggioni et al. (January 2018)
- SENSOR.awi.de by Ana Macario et al. (April 2018)
- Marine SWE by Robert Huber et al. (May 2018)
- ORCID by Tom Demeranville (May 2018)
- ICOS Carbon Portal by Claudio D’Onofrio et al. (June 2018)
- BODC by Louise Darroch et al. (July 2018)
- ESO by Dominic Bordelon et al. (August 2018)
- FZJ Central Library (JLSRF) by Claudia Frick (September 2018)
- PANGAEA by Anusuriya Devaraju et al. (September 2018)
- EuroGOOS/PSMSL/GLOSS by Louise Darroch (October 2018)
- LTER-Europe by Alessandro Oggioni et al. (October 2018)
- UK Polar Data Centre by Alex Tate (February 2019)
Posts
Webinar: Persistent Identification of Instruments
by Rolf Krahl
Dear all, together with Clustermarket and RSpace, we are holding a webinar on persistent identification of instruments and their integration in different tools for collecting laboratory data. The webinar will be on Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:00 - 17:00 CET and is free of charge. See the event page for the agenda, here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-persistent-identification-of-inst... Registrations are welcome at:0 | Add new comment
New RDA working group on Small Uncrewed Aircraft and Autonomous Platforms Data â•„ kickoff meeting
Dear RDA Persistent Identification of Instruments WG members, (with apologies for cross-posting) We are reaching out to individuals who we believe would be uniquely qualified and hopefully interested to contribute to the proposed RDA Working Group on Small Uncrewed Aircraft and Autonomous Platforms Data. An online kick off meeting for the Working Group will be held on 6 November @ 12:00-13:30 UTC. The proposed WG is in its early planning stages and availing of support services from the RDA TIGER project.0 | Add new comment
Next call Wed, November 1 at 8 am UTC
Dear all, Apologies for late notification (public holiday in Germany today) we will have our regular call tomorrow 8 am UTC / 9 am CET at the usual link: https://tib-eu.webex.com/meet/markus.stocker Cheers, m.1 | Add new comment
Monthly call cancelled
Dear all, Due to holidays and (busines) travels, we are unable to host the October call, which I thus cancel. Apologies for late notice. Cheers, m.0 | Add new comment
Join Us for a Panel Discussion: The Role of Funders in Building a Robust and Trustworthy Output Tracking Mechanism Using PIDs and Open Metadata
*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear Colleagues, Join us for an exciting panel discussion on the central role of funders in promoting FAIR research practices and advancing Open Science.0 | Add new comment
Monthly meeting cancelled
Dear all, Due to holidays, we are cancelling the meeting this month. Cheers, m.0 | Add new comment
Next call, Wed August 2 at 2 pm UTC
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.1 | Add new comment
Next call, July 5, 7 am UTC
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.0 | Add new comment
Next meeting, Wed, June 7 at 2 pm UTC
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.0 | Add new comment
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...0 | Add new comment