If you replace all add-ons, sensors and modules on an EM microscope, is it still the same microscope? In this short talk, find out how we approach identification and traceability of scientific research equipment with FAST.
FAST is a web application for facility access and management, used by the EXCITE2 network to provide access to European research infrastructure, with a database of facilities, equipment and metadata identified using standard approaches like ORCID and PID.
This presents both an opportunity and a challenge: linking data publications back to the equipment used to produce them is only reliable if you can account for how that instrument has changed over time.
With FAST, we place equipment in time using an audit trail and date markers, pinpointing instrument attributes at any given moment. We'll discuss current progress, open questions, and what we hope to learn at PIDfest.