Support offer #2: Creating EOSC compliant Persistent Identifier (PID) policies

Context

The persistent identification of research outputs is part of good research data management practice and is central to the FAIR Principles and the vision of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). There are many types of persistent identifiers (PIDs) currently being used to identify data and other kinds of research outputs but also different actors involved in the creation of outputs and the organisations that employ them or fund their work. To foster harmonisation on the use of different persistent identifiers, there is a need to define and implement research data and/or PID policies. A PID policy for the EOSC was approved in 2020 and defines a set of expectations about what persistent identifiers will be used within the context of EOSC to support a functioning environment of FAIR research as well as requirements of PID providers and the basic services they offer.

In this support action, successful applicants will carry out self-assessments with regard to PID policy readiness using the EOSC PID Policy as a guide. This will be made possible through the beta version of the FAIRCORE4EOSC Compliance Assessment Toolkit (CAT) service, which strives to encode, record, and query compliance with the EOSC PID policy and more (including TRUST, FAIR, Reproducibility, GDPR, and Licences). If you are a PID Service provider or a Data Repository Provider, this support offer is suitable for you. To enable participation across a range of PID providers, this support action will not focus on any specific PID type but rather provide general best practice guidelines on the creation and assessment of PID policies.

Successful applicants will receive 10 000 € to support their participation which will require about 20 days of effort from participants between May-September 2024.

During this support action, participants will: 

• analyse the CAT specifications and provide feedback.
• receive guidance on creating EOSC compliant PID policies 
• identify current barriers for implementing EOSC PID policy compliant PID solutions and collaborate on possible solutions
• become familiar with new terms and concepts relevant for systematically organising various PID actors and services, like the “PID Stack”, and analysing the associated roles and actions.

Participants can expect to:

• gain a deeper insight into formulating an optimal PID policy (in terms of both content and format) by reading through various successfully implemented PID policies of different scientific communities and through interactions with the offer support team and Compliance Assessment Toolkit team.
• better understand their own organisation’s/service’s PID policy maturity level.
• where relevant, facilitate the onboarding process of your service to the EOSC Marketplace. Please note that working towards onboarding is not a prerequisite for being successful in this support offer.  

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Who can apply? 

This call is open to individuals, groups or organisations from public and private research-performing organisations, including:

• Research-performing organisations and research infrastructures;  
• Repositories, data and metadata service providers; 
• Representatives of national and international level initiatives. 

Applicants must reside and/or work in an EU or Associated Country for the duration of the grant. A key aim for FAIR-IMPACT is to prioritise support for organisations, groups, and/or individuals based in countries or representing domains that are currently less advanced in terms of their FAIR enabling capacity².

The call is not open to individuals or groups based at any of the FAIR-IMPACT project partner organisations nor to individuals who hold the status of FAIR Champions under FAIR-IMPACT.