Persistent Identifiers and the openBIS Research Data Management System

Abstract

Scientists face increasing requirements to publish data according to the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) principles. To achieve this, every step of the research process needs to be accurately documented, and data needs to be securely stored, backed up, and annotated with sufficient metadata to make it re-usable and re-producible. The use of an integrated research data management system and Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) can help researchers towards this goal. openBIS is such a system that has been developed by ETH Scientific IT Services for over 10 years. Data stored in openBIS are immutable and have internally unique and persistent identifiers (PIDs). In an ongoing collaboration with the Swiss Supercomputing Center (CSCS), they are working towards linking the internal openBIS identifiers to global PIDs provided by the ePIC consortium via the CSCS. The presentation will give an overview of the openBIS data management system and report on current progress of the integration with the ePIC PID service.