Collaborative Research: Cross-Cutting Improvements: FAIR Facilities and Instruments: Enabling transparency, reproducibility, and equity through persistent identifiers

这一研究协调网络(RCN)将在全国范围内推动研究设施和仪器永久识别符的标准化和采用。PID被广泛视为开放科学的基础，因为PID唯一地识别研究生态系统中的各种实体。虽然许多类别的国际ID在标准化和采用方面取得了长足进步(例如：出版物的DOI、研究人员的ORCID)，但本项目的重点是需要推动研究生态系统中尚未取得进展的其他类别实体--即研究设施和仪器--的国际ID标准化和采用。这个RCN将支持的科学界包括生物医学、地球科学、信息学和许多或大多数其他在研究过程中使用专门设施和设备的科学领域。虽然在少数情况下已经为设施和研究设备分配了永久识别符，但需要更多的社区采用和标准化来解决整个研究生态系统。该项目以已经开展的活动如RRID(研究资源识别器)为基础，将举办一系列研讨会和利益攸关方的参与，以更好地了解这一领域和当前的做法，制定新的研究资源识别器的设计原则，并努力将这些原则推广到实际应用中，从而实现开放科学的具体成果。这项由高级网络基础设施办公室颁发的奖项由地球科学理事会共同支持。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This research coordination network (RCN) will advance the standardization and adoption of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for research facilities and instruments nationally. PIDs are widely seen as foundational to open science in that PIDs uniquely identify various entities in the research ecosystem. While many categories of PIDs have come a long way in terms of standardization and adoption (examples: DOIs for publications, ORCIDs for researchers), this project is focused on the need to advance the standardization and adoption of PIDs for other categories of entities in the research ecosystem which have not progressed as far, namely for research facilities and instruments. The scientific communities which this RCN will support include the biomedical sciences, the geosciences, informatics, and many or most other scientific fields which utilize specialized facilities and equipment in the research process.While persistent identifiers are already being assigned to facilities and research equipment in a few limited cases, significantly more community adoption and standardization is needed to address the entire research ecosystem. This project builds on activities already being undertaken such as RRIDs (Research Resource Identifiers), and will convene a series of workshops and stakeholder engagements to better understand the field and current practice, develop principles of design for new PIDs, and work to generalize these principles toward practical application, thereby aiming to achieve tangible outcomes for open science. This award by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure is jointly supported by the Directorate for Geosciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.