Persistent Identifiers as IRO Infrastructure

英国的2500家博物馆、遗产收藏品和遗产遗址至少收藏了2亿件实物和数字物品。能够唯一地识别这些物品是促进它们的使用和管理的关键-如果你不知道某件物品是什么，你就不能让研究人员访问它或将它包括在展览中。因此，唯一登录号是所有藏书和图书馆管理系统中的一个关键组成部分，但这些只包括单个藏书中的物品。为了充分实现我们的国家收藏品在英国社会和文化生活方面的潜在好处，遗产部门的经济影响，以及对英国国际声誉和影响力的贡献，我们需要将所有收藏品的所有物品聚集在一起的识别符。持久识别符(PID)为数字对象提供了长期的可操作引用，被UKRI认为是未来研究基础设施的关键组成部分，使数据发现、访问和引用成为可能。促进更广泛地采用和统一将ID分配给收藏对象、环境、标本和其他相关实体的方法，是持久、明确地链接收藏以创建数字联合王国国家收藏的关键一步。然而，在整个遗产部门，人们对PID实施的挑战、效用和更广泛的好处了解得较少。虽然许多个别机构或多或少都在使用个人识别码，但迄今很少有跨界别或跨界别或跨界别的合作和/或支援，以促进可最大限度地惠及所有机构的协调一致的方法。这项基金计划将从收集的角度汇集使用个人识别码的最佳做法，并以现有的研究计划所发展的现有研究工作和专业知识为基础，总结使用个人识别码的最佳做法。通过分享专业知识和最佳实践，我们将为英国遗产部门的地方、地区和国家机构的同事提供有关PID方法的框架和建议。通过研讨会、案头研究和案例研究，该项目将寻求回答这样的问题：在遗产收藏、建筑和环境方面，现有的PID景观存在哪些差距？该项目将提供一系列建议，以指导遗产收藏和相关实体和概念的选择、实施和使用，以及一些案例研究和支持资源，这些案例研究和支持资源可用于整个部门，作为现实世界PID实施的指南。在推动将ID用于遗产收藏的过程中，该项目将能够在所有情况下更多地使用这些收藏，尤其是在研究中。它将改善维基数据等平台之间的联系，使相关概念和元数据更容易与文物信息的规范来源和文物本身联系起来。它将提供对来自不同来源的这些信息的整理和选择，以便与实物空间中的文物和在线观众一起展示。重要的是，他们还将通过改进PID支持的指标，使这种使用量的增加更加明显和可衡量。

The 2,500 museums, heritage collections and heritage sites in the UK house at least 200 million physical and digital objects. Being able to uniquely identify these objects is key to facilitating their use and curation - you cannot provide a researcher with access to an item or include it in an exhibition if you don't know what it is. Unique accession numbers are therefore a key component in all collection and library management systems but these only include the objects within an individual collection. To fully realise the potential benefits of our national collections in terms of the social and cultural life of the UK, the economic impact of the heritage sector, and the contribution to the UK's international prestige and influence, we need identifiers that will bring together all of the objects from all of the collections.Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) that provide a long-lasting actionable reference to a digital object are recognised by UKRI as a key component of future research infrastructure enabling data discovery, access and citation. Facilitating wider adoption and consistency of approach to the assigning of PIDs to collection objects, environments, specimens and other relevant entities, is a key step to the persistent, unambiguous linking of collections in order to create a digital UK National Collection. However, the challenges, utility and wider benefits of PID implementation are less well understood across the heritage sector. While many individual institutions are using PIDs to a greater or lesser extent, to date there has been very little cross-sector or cross-collection collaboration and / or support to facilitate a cohesive approach that will maximise the benefits to all organisations.This foundation project will bring together best practices in the use of PIDs from a collection perspective, building on existing IRO work and expertise developed through existing research projects. By sharing expertise and best practice, we will provide a framework and recommendations on the approach to PIDs for colleagues in local, regional and national institutions across the UK heritage sector. Through a mixture of workshops, desk research and case studies, the project will seek to answer questions such as 'What are the gaps in the existing PID landscape for heritage collections, buildings and environments?' and 'What should a PID infrastructure, strategy and governance framework look like for a unified UK national collection?'.The project will deliver a set of recommendations to guide the selection, implementation and use of PIDs to heritage collections and related entities and concepts, as well as a number of case studies and supporting resources that can be used across the sector as a guide to real-world PID implementation. In driving the use of PIDs for heritage collections, the project will enable greater use of these collections in all contexts, but especially in research. It will allow improved linking across platforms such as Wikidata, making it easier to associate related concepts and metadata with canonical sources of artefact information and the artefacts themselves. It will provide for the curation and selection of this information from diverse sources to be displayed alongside artefacts in physical spaces and online viewers. Importantly, they will also make this increase in use more evident and measurable, through the improved metrics that PIDs support.