ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e107168
Deliverable D7.1 Architecture Design for a pan-European PID system for Digital Specimens
expand article infoWouter Addink‡§, Sharif Islam§, Mathias Dillen|, Anton Güntsch, Soulaine Theocharides§
‡ Distributed System of Scientific Collections - DiSSCo, Leiden, Netherlands§ Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands| Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium¶ Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Corresponding author: Wouter Addink ( wouter.addink@naturalis.nl )

© Wouter Addink, Sharif Islam, Mathias Dillen, Anton Güntsch, Soulaine Theocharides.
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Citation: Addink W, Islam S, Dillen M, Güntsch A, Theocharides S (2023) Deliverable D7.1 Architecture Design for a pan-European PID system for Digital Specimens. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e107168
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Abstract
Persistent Identifier (PID) systems are the foundation for achieving the FAIR Guiding Principles (“findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable”). As FAIR data and connecting different data classes (i.e. specimens, genomics, observations, taxonomy and publications) are essential aspects of the BiCIKL project, we need a PID system at least at the European level to create and maintain identifiers for the digital representation of specimens and samples, called Digital Specimens (DS) (Hardisty et al. 2022). The PID system provides the mechanism to ensure that identifiers are globally unique, persistent and resolvable. This system should also manage associated metadata, facilitate provenance, enable discovery, manage states and the life cycle of the PID, link to other derived data and digital content, and allow content providers to enforce metadata constraints. For the successful provision of a PID system, this design document has been created to guide us during the implementation and operation phases. The document is based on an earlier milestone (MS28) that was used for discussion and evaluation with potential end-users.
Keywords
BiCIKL; PID; FAIR