Creating EOSC compliant Persistent Identifier (PID) policies
The persistent identification of research outputs is part of good research data management practice and is central to the FAIR Principles and the vision of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). There are many types of persistent identifiers (PIDs) currently being used to identify data and other kinds of research outputs but also different actors involved in the creation of outputs and the organisations that employ them or fund their work. To foster harmonisation on the use of different persistent identifiers, there is a need to define and implement research data and/or PID policies. A PID policy for the EOSC was approved in 2020 and defines a set of expectations about what persistent identifiers will be used within the context of EOSC to support a functioning environment of FAIR research as well as requirements of PID providers and the basic services they offer.
In this support action, successful applicants will carry out self-assessments with regard to PID policy readiness using the EOSC PID Policy as a guide. This will be made possible through the beta version of the FAIRCORE4EOSC Compliance Assessment Toolkit (CAT) service, which strives to encode, record, and query compliance with the EOSC PID policy and more (including TRUST, FAIR, Reproducibility, GDPR, and Licences). If you are a PID Service provider or a Data Repository Provider, this support offer is suitable for you. To enable participation across a range of PID providers, this support action will not focus on any specific PID type but rather provide general best practice guidelines on the creation and assessment of PID policies.
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