Project Title

PID4NFDI: Persistent Identifier Services for the German National Research Data Infrastructure

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Open Funder Registry ID:  https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659)
Award ID: 521466146

Duration and Start Date

Initialization phase: 12 mo., 1 Jan 2024
Integration phase: 24 mo., 1 Jan 2025

Partners

DataCite, Base4NFDI, TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, GWDG, Helmholtz Open Science Office at the German Research Centre for Geosciences

Objectives

Different NFDI consortia have different levels of maturity in PID implementation. PID4NFDI will design a work programme to build an NFDI foundation service on established PID infrastructures. The goal is to roll-out a portfolio of services that cover the various use cases and requirements of the NFDI consortia.

The initialization phase focused on use cases and requirements analyses, concept development, stakeholder identification, and setting up outreach channels.

The integration phase focuses on integrating PIDs throughout the research data lifecycle, using Data Management Plans and Electronic Lab Notebooks as pilot implementations, and with special emphasis on research outputs for which PID registration is still emerging. Governance guidelines, outreach efforts, and a modular training concept will promote PID awareness and adoption across disciplines. All components together form a PID Coordination Hub, which will be a central entry point for users of the PID4NFDI service portfolio.