Linking instruments, methods, calibrations and data through PIDs: possibilities and benefits.

Increasingly institutions and researchers are looking to Persistent Identifiers to link instruments, calibrations, data and methods. This is an emerging area with standards still in development and community discussion is essential to adopting and spreading best practices. This session will facilitate an open discussion based on a series of key questions to collect experiences and, together, explore possible opportunities, benefits and issues such as: - What PIDs are used across the instrument ecosystem? Why were they chosen? - What do these linkages facilitate? (workflows, FAIR, research integrity, use of instrument) - What technologies are being considered (PID/Research Graph, RO-Crate, 5s-Crate) - How do people track research linked to instruments? - How are people facilitating data discoverability and the use of instruments? - PID Maturity Models and frameworks for infrastructure This session is aimed at providers of research infrastructure services and data management and planning support services across the research sector, including researchers, research data stewards, research support staff, institutional administrators, enterprise architects, eResearch directors, and academic engagement or research librarians.