KonsortSWD Measure 5.1: use cases description extended report

This report extends the use case descriptions and provides recommendations for assigning Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) below the study level, i.e., here, as a first approach, a variable within a dataset. The recommendations rely on use case partners' data types and services. However, it would also benefit other institutions, such as data repositories that hold tabular data and want to take advantage of uniquely identifying their data at a lower granularity level. The report describes seven use cases from four consortium partners from KonsortSWD. The target elements to get a PID are variables within large and small datasets, PIDs for information bundles (group of variables), and qualitative data, such as observation recording, interviews and transcriptions. PIDs for variables used by harmonization tools are also included. Institutions will be responsible for documenting the variable or other attribute they want to get a PID for, providing the landing page URL and metadata records to da|ra to get a PID. To this end, the da|ra PID registration service was enlarged under the KonsortSWD Measure TA.5-M.1. The da|ra will then register the corresponding metadata and get the PID on behalf of the institution, returning the PID to the institution, which will store the data with the corresponding PIDs.
KonsortSWD is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the framework of the NFDI – project number: 442494171.