FYI, Datacite announcement below copied from here (click here to register (warning: Zoom link)):
DataCite, in partnership with Metadata Game Changers, is excited to announce two community dialogue sessions (see also here) designed to engage the broader Life Sciences and Astronomy communities in co-developing metadata enhancements supporting the development and use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) for instruments and projects. We would like to invite both metadata creators and users to join us and take an active role in advancing infrastructure solutions to identify, describe, discover, and track the impact of instruments and projects across domain communities.
The Persistent Identifiers for Instruments Community Dialogue will build on the work of the Persistent Identification of Instruments (PIDInst) group and the FAIR Facilities and Instruments Research Coordination Network.
Topics will include:
- Ownership & provenance
- Series & versioning
- Replicability & reuse
- Discoverability
- Impact measurement
These dialogues represent the first phase of a larger project recently launched by DataCite. Generously funded by the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, this project aims to address present challenges in data accessibility, transparency, and reproducibility across the Life Science and Astronomy communities by fostering collaboration and developing transformative solutions. Insights, feedback, and proposed metadata enhancements gathered during these dialogues will directly inform subsequent prototype developments designed by DataCite.
Workshop Facilitators:
- Erin Robinson (Metadata Game Changers)
- Ted Habermann (Metadata Game Changers)
- Jamaica Jones (University of Pittsburgh)
Workshop slides will be shared afterwards through the DataCite Zenodo Community.