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

该研究协调网络（RCN）将促进全国研究设施和仪器持久标识符（pid）的标准化和采用。pid被广泛视为开放科学的基础，因为pid唯一地标识了研究生态系统中的各种实体。虽然许多类别的pid在标准化和采用方面已经走了很长一段路（例如：出版物的doi，研究人员的orcid），但本项目的重点是需要推进研究生态系统中尚未取得进展的其他类别实体的pid的标准化和采用，即研究设施和仪器。该RCN将支持的科学社区包括生物医学科学、地球科学、信息学和许多或大多数其他科学领域，这些领域在研究过程中使用专门的设施和设备。虽然在一些有限的情况下，永久性标识符已经被分配到设施和研究设备上，但要解决整个研究生态系统的问题，还需要更多的社区采用和标准化。该项目建立在已经开展的活动基础上，如rrid（研究资源标识符），并将召集一系列研讨会和利益相关者参与，以更好地了解该领域和当前的实践，制定新的pid设计原则，并努力将这些原则推广到实际应用中，从而旨在为开放科学取得切实的成果。该奖项由先进网络基础设施办公室颁发，并得到地球科学理事会的联合支持。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.