Rory Macneil
I am CEO of Research Space, which provides RSpace, a research orchestration platform that includes an electronic lab notebook and a sample management system. I participate actively in RDM and PID community activities, e.g. as Co-Chair of the RDA Working with PIDS in Tools IG, the Research Data Architectures in Institutions IG, and the MaLDReTH Map of Tools used in the Research Lifecycle, and through active participation in the PIDS for Instruments IG and the GORC WG. I have also been active in fostering interoperability between research tools, via engagement with the 20+ tools with which RSpace integrates, and projects such as in the US NSF Vertical Interoperability Conference award, and currently as Director of the NIH Vertical Interoperability Idea Lab. I also am a member of DataCite and Dryad advisory boards.
Sessions
In this session, you will learn how to implement PIDs practically as part of a major interoperability project, by taking a workflow-focused approach. You will gain insight into user research and design techniques to clarify requirements and facilitate alignment between collaborators, and discover how to approach PID workflows pragmatically to ensure implementability, maintainability and adoption.
This presentation overviews how comprehensive use of PIDS helps enable RSpace to orchestrate FAIR workflows across research infrastructures. RSpace is used to collect and manage data, and document experiments, in the active research phase of the research lifecycle. It is integrated with 20+ other research tools used in the planning, active and sharing/archiving phases of the research lifecycle. RSpace incorporates support for traditional PIDS – ORCIDS and RORS, enabling association of research outputs with individuals and organisations. Over the past two years support has been added for IGSN IDs, pidinsts and RAiDs, so persistent identification of samples, instruments and projects can be linked with individual and organisational attribution in the context of active experimental work. Moreover, we are working with developers of other categories of tools, in particular DMP tools and repositories, to ensure that association of PIDS with the research outputs is consistently maintained as data passes between tools.
Modern science uses a wide variety of instrumentation as a core part of the research cycle. globally, and persistently identifying instruments has significant benefits for research, such as reusability, interoperability and transparency of scientific outputs, and have also many use cases in operational, funding, and administrative aspects of research processes. This workshop concentrates on discussing technical aspects of how to persistently identify instruments and on the societal and administrative aspects of practically implementing instrument identification in research organisations.
The workshop builds on the outputs of the Persistent Identification of Instruments Working Group in the Research Data Alliance, including the development and ongoing maintenance of the PIDINST metadata schema, and the outputs and plans of the TDCC-NES FAIR4instruments workshop on the practical implementation of instrument identification in the Netherlands.