You can now discover the first instruments via @DataCite Commons at commons.datacite.org/doi.org…. Infrastructures are beginning to use the recently introduced support for instruments in the DataCite metadata schema v. 4.5.

Exciting news: @DataCite has released schema version 4.5, which adds support for instruments to the metadata schema with a new option for resourceTypeGeneral and new relationTypes to interlink with data. More at doi.org/10.5438/jvkk-8198

The RDA PIDINST WG is soon going to submit its White Paper at docs.pidinst.org as Supporting Output to @resdatall. Thanks to WG member Aoki, the living document now also has a Japanese translation!

A German consortium has submitted a @dfg_public proposal for a project that develops a sustained international governance for persistent identification of instruments to solidify trust in this identifier type and install the practice in research communities and infrastructures.

meet brand new, first-in-Scotland @StrathForensics MiSeq FGx next-generation sequencing system by @VerogenBio #PIDs for instruments issued upon purchase could offer such a potential for tracking their usage! #PIDGraph

Very interesting read: @pcastromartin et al. (2023). Persistent identifiers for research instruments and facilities: an emerging PID domain in need of coordination. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.73303…

DataCite Schema Version 4.5 - which will include support for Instruments - should be released during Q1 2023. The resourceTypeGeneral controlled list will include a new value "Instrument".

White paper with recommendations for the use of instrument Persistent Identifiers for instrument #PIDs doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-018

With the upcoming @DataCite schema changes it should be possible to more easily implement a meta catalogue/search for instrument metadata (abstracting DataCite, ePIC, possibly others). Useful? #PIDINST

Fun fact: #PIDINST has its roots in first edition @pidapalooza and @resdatall WG inception during 2017 @ENVRIcomm bootcamp on @ORCID_Org integrations in @ESFRI_eu RIs including @ICOS_RI @ACTRISRI @EuroArgoERIC

Yay, @DataCite will be releasing a ResourceTypeGeneral for instruments in schema 4.5 (Q4/22). The draft comes with the opportunity for public comment. Important step for search, instrument-data-organization-article linking, metacataloguing instruments, etc. #PIDINST

The #PIDINST White Paper with lots of technical documentation on the persistent identification of measuring instruments used in the sciences can now be accessed via docs.pidinst.org.

We have a first draft for the Web presence: pidinst.org

Instruments in Schema.org, #DCAT, etc.? @snet_robert presenting first thoughts. Join the development here: github.com/rdawg-pidinst/usa…

Tibor presented #B2INST @Eudat_eu as a registry for instruments implementing the #PIDINST schema. Check it out: b2inst.eoschub-surf.src.surf…

Join us tomorrow, Wed, June 22 at 5 am UTC for @resdatall Plenary session to hear about #PIDINST Metadata Schema Recommendation (doi.org/10.15497/RDA00070) - among other cool things. rd-alliance.org/rdas-19th-pl… - yes, we are on Twitter now.