How to Become FAIR as an Organization: Building a FAIR RDM ecosystem supporting selected PID-Types within the Helmholtz Association – Concept, Progress and Lessons learned
The Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration is developing a harmonized FAIR metadata space across the Helmholtz data ecosystem. A key element is the broad implementation of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) such as ROR, ORCID, IGSN, PIDINST, DataCite DOI, and Crossref DOI to reduce metadata redundancy, improve interoperability, and support machine-actionability. However, PID adoption alone is insufficient. FAIR implementation also requires clear workflows for capturing PID metadata, defined responsibilities for PID registration and maintenance, and suitable tools and services integrated into the research data ecosystem. This presentation introduces the building blocks of our Road-to-FAIR strategy, including the overall vision and priority tasks for improving interoperability and reusability. In particular, we will reconsider traditional repository-centered approaches and demonstrate how a broader range of actors in research can contribute to PID-based research data management across Helmholtz Earth and Environment centres.