Persistent identifiers(pid)

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Persistent Identifiers (PID): Introduction and HowTo

Scope

This wiki page summarizes relevant facts and procedures regarding persistent identifers (PID) for the OSGeo communities.

Status

Draft (2022-01-09)

What are PID

PID for software

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Dealing with different roles within projects

PID for people

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

PID for documentation

tbd

PID for data

PID for video

[page on the TIB AV-Portal]

PID for physical objects

tbd

Infrastructure

 * Software Repositories (GitHub)
 * Zenodo


Howto: Registering a DOI for a OSGeo software Project

Requirements

This should be done by a person who represents the software project (member of PSC or similar).

Options

ORCIDs for authors, developers and other project staff can be embedded in the DOI metadata, allowing for proper citation.

Quick Approach: Upload a repository-snapshot to Zenodo

  • Pro: Takes less than 10 minutes to achieve
  • Pro: Can be extended and superseeded with better integration options. the DOI will stay always valid regardless and will point to the most up to date software version (and author credits)
  • Pro: No need to set webhooks in Zenodo or store description files in GitHub
  • Con: Metadata (author list) must be edited manually. (ORCID option ?)
  • Con: Every software release requires maintenance work by project staff, as an additional tarball must be uploaded and metadata must be updated.

Howto

Coming real soon

Examples

Sustainable Approach: Create a live link between the GitHub Repo and Zenodo

  • Pro: Immediate automated updates of DOI payload and metadata for each software release on GitHub
  • Con: Takes a bit longer than option 1 (20 minutes ?)
  • Beware: If no CFF or .zenodo.json file is included, the author section of the DOI landing page will be reset to the username of the owner of the GitHub repo. This can be manually edited afterwards, but is awkward.

Howto

Examples