Looking to bridge the gap between physical samples and the digital world? 🧪💻
Join the online IGSN Community Workshop on June 4, 10:00 CEST!
Program & Registration:
https://pid.services.base4nfdi.de/events/2026-06-04_igsn/
#OpenScience #ResearchData #IGSN #PID @datacite @HelmholtzOpenScienceOffice @NFDI @tibhannover @gwdg
Rory Macneil from Research Space presents the latest on IGSN ID implementation in RSpace and how seamless integration enhances FAIR workflows for researchers.
@PIDNetworkDE a workshop on persistent identifiers of physical objects on 20 February 2025 at @GFZ
It is about the use of #PIDs for physical samples, such as environmental samples, rock samples or cultural objects.
There are exciting presentations e.g. from @nfdi4cat, @lange and @FAIRagro, @dai_weltweit,
The presentations will also be available online!
Registration 👉 https://events.hifis.net/event/1999/
The use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) is an essential component of an open scientific landscape in the digital age. They improve the findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability (FAIR) of various research-related objects and allow the scientific process to become more transparent and interconnected. The adoption of PIDs for physical objects such as different types of samples or artefacts has so far been common practice mostly in the earth and life sciences. Broader...
💥 Registration open
The workshop ‘PIDs for Physical Objects’ will explore the use of #PIDs for physical objects such as samples and artefacts.
For those who are unable to attend in person, we are happy to provide online access to the presentations.
📅 Thu, 20.02.2025
🔎 Format: hybrid
📍 Location: @GFZ and online
👉 Registration and program: https://events.hifis.net/event/1999/
hrough the 2021 partnership between DataCite and IGSN e.V., DataCite services can be used to register International Generic Sample Numbers (IGSN IDs) for material samples. Over the coming months, the blog series ‘IGSN ID Implementation Exemplars’ will showcase sample management workflows developed by the community that incorporate IGSN ID registration. In each post, we offer practical guidance on how to work alongside disciplinary sample experts to register IGSN IDs within DataCite services. RSpace is an open-source research platform for institutional research data management, maintained by Research Space. It consists of an electronic lab notebook (ELN) and inventory management system that integrate with various tools, enabling you to connect and access various aspects of your existing workflows and build upon them in ways that enhance their FAIRness. A major component of RSpace is the Inventory system—a customisable and mobile-friendly sample management system. In collaboration with DataCite, RSpace has prototyped a seamless integration of IGSN IDs within the Inventory module such that you can naturally draft, edit the sample metadata for, and publish IGSN IDs. RSpace is not only a DataCite Registered Service Provider, it is the first service provider on the program to offer IGSN ID registration services to DataCite Members and Consortium Organizations.
In our new blog post series "IGSN ID Implementation Exemplars" we present workflows for sample management with practical guidance. We start with GFZ Data Services, an IGSN pioneer, which supports the registration of geosamples with innovative tools.
Through the 2021 partnership between DataCite and IGSN e.V., DataCite services can be used to register International Generic Sample Numbers (IGSN IDs) for material samples. Over the coming months, the blog series ‘IGSN ID Implementation Exemplars’ will showcase sample management workflows developed by the community that incorporate IGSN ID registration. In each post, we offer practical guidance on how to work alongside disciplinary sample experts to register IGSN IDs within DataCite services. GFZ Data Services is hosted at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. It is a research data repository for DOI-referenced data and scientific software from the Geosciences, and provides IGSN ID registration for geosamples. GFZ Data Services was a founding member of IGSN e.V. in 2011, and until 31 December 2022, when the IGSN PID infrastructure transitioned under DataCite, GFZ Data Services was responsible for managing the central IGSN handle server that registered more than 10.5 Million IGSN IDs. As IGSN Allocating Agent, GFZ Data Services has assigned close to 39,000 material samples with IGSN IDs for its community. Almost 3,000 IGSN IDs have been directly registered within DataCite services since the transition.
Interesting presentation by Tilo Mathes @tilomat on RSpace, highlighting the implementation on #IGSN and Electronic Lab Notebooks #ELN
Simone Frenzel from the @GFZ presenting the #FAIR data workflow to establish #IGSN for samples in the Helmholtz Association @helmholtz at #pidfest
She also highlighted the support of the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration @helmholtz_hmc
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