Emerging Uses of PIDs in NCRIS Research Workflows
Jens Klump1, Matthias Liffers2, Melroy Almeida3 1CSIRO, Perth, WA, Australia2ARDC, Perth, WA, Australia3Australian Access Federation, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Abstract
The lack of compatibility among tools poses a significant obstacle to streamlining workflows throughout the research process. These gaps hinder the comprehensive collection and integration of research data and metadata into the research record during active research. Additionally, they restrict the transfer of this data and metadata to data repositories, thus undermining the principles of FAIR data and reproducibility.
This session aims to examine various best practices and tools in the application of persistent identifiers (PIDs) within NCRIS workflows, where tools can utilise the exchange of persistent identifiers PIDs between systems to establish efficient and FAIR workflows. The transition from theory to implementation involves multiple components that will be explored during the BoF. The session will address challenges, highlight existing integrations, and propose potential solutions. Australia has recently commenced a collaborative process to develop a National PID Strategy and a five-year roadmap to accelerate research and innovation through the use of PIDs. The outcomes and use cases that emerge during this session will inform further strategy development with regards to NCRIS providers.
Objectives of the session:
– Investigate emerging best practices for sharing and connecting research artefacts (samples, observational data, software, etc) and outputs from workflowa with scholarly works through PIDs
– Discuss obstacles and advantages of tool interoperability
Explore the concept of a research workflow that has been designed to maximise the benefits of PIDs and its role in facilitating the creation and dissemination of FAIR data.
– Document use-cases to share with the National PID Strategy working group.
Biography
Jens Klump is a geochemist by training and Group Leader Exploration Through Cover in CSIRO Mineral Resources, based in Perth, Western Australia. Jens work focuses on data in minerals exploration, looking at data capture and data analysis. This includes automated data and metadata capture, sensor data integration, both in the field and in the laboratory, data processing workflows, and data provenance, but also data analysis by statistical methods, machine learning and numerical modelling.
Jens is the vice-president of the IGSN Organization (IGSN e.V.). The organisation coordinates the development and introduction of persistent identifiers for physical specimens of research materials.
Jens is the President of the Earth and Space Science Informatics Division of the European Geosciences Union.