Conveners
Keynote Presentation. Your Data Deserves a Permanent Identifier (PID)
- Mario Valle (CSCS)
Description
Too often, data is considered second-class compared to publications and papers regarding academic recognition. Too often scientists consider their data as fire-and-forget weapons: useful for the publication and then thrown away. However, data do not necessarily has to be considered this way. There are interesting examples of discoveries made by browsing existing data or surprising results from old data reanalysis. The common premise for these data recycling successes is to find and unambiguously identify the data.
CSCS has been appointed as the Swiss administrator and resolver for Permanent Identifier (PID). PID will play a role similar to DOI in the publication world to identify data and scientists could use this new CSCS service, available soon, to identify data objects regardless of their location, associate metadata to them and claim authorship.
