Persistent Identifiers for Scientific Data at CSCS

Abstract

Everyone knows the importance of FAIR data principles, data reuse opportunities and provenance traceability. In this talk, Mario Valle will explore the technical and human, non-technical, prerequisites that make these principles concrete. The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is supporting Swiss scientists by providing and managing Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) to name scientific data. Besides this base service, the CSCS is also experimenting and collecting use cases to make this deceptive simple thing, the PID string, a tool that could help speed up science in Switzerland.