Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are an essential component of the FAIR principles. In 2020 a Persistent Identifier (PID) policy for the European Open Science Cloud was published that aims to be of interest for all EOSC stakeholders. The policy “defines a set of expectations about what PIDs will be used to support a functioning environment of FAIR research.”
The EOSC PID policy is one of the foundations of the activities under FAIR-IMPACT Task 3.3 entitled “EOSC PID policy alignment and support” . The main target group of the activities in Task 3.3 are PID Managers, who have the responsibility to maintain the integrity of the relationship between entities and their PIDs, including a provider of a data repository, a data catalogue, or a research workflow system.
As part of Task 3.3 FAIR-IMPACT partners released the Guidelines for creating a user tailored EOSC Compliant PID Policy (D3.3), including 16 guidelines for helping PID Managers to formulate an EOSC compliant PID policy.
The main source for the guidelines are the outcomes of the compliance assessment of the EOSC PID policy. Other sources of best practice are a review of national and institutional PID policies, outputs and recommendations of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), review of PID Stack documentation and published use of PIDs in workflows and specific use cases.
The results provided by the report are relevant for all actors in the PID Ecosystem, such as PID Service Providers, PID Owners, PID Authorities and PID Standards Bodies. The main target group, however, are PID Managers, who have the responsibility to maintain the integrity of the relationship between entities and their PIDs. PID Managers may include a provider of a data repository, a data catalogue, or a research workflow system.
This deliverable is open for external community review, and it is also under review by the FAIR-IMPACT support programme dedicated to "creating EOSC compliant Persistent Identifier (PID) policies". The period for the reviews is open until 31 August 2024.
