Data Management @ ODU

A persistent identifier or PID is a "long-lasting reference to a digital resource" (ORCID, What are persistent identifiers (PIDs)?). PIDs are unique to a person, place, or thing, and serve as disambiguation tools as well as reliable access points to a digital entity.

PIDs for Individuals

Other PIDs for individuals includes Web of Science ResearcherID and Scopus Author ID.

PIDs for Organizations

ODU's ROR ID is https://ror.org/04zjtrb98

PIDs for Research Outputs

• DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) are the primary PID for research materials (including articles, datasets, code, software, and other research outputs). DOIs are usually assigned by publishers or repositories, for example, the ODU Libraries assign DOIs to original faculty and student works in ODU Digital Commons.

Other object identifiers include ARK, Handle, and PURL (National Transportation Persistent Identifier LibGuide)

Additional Persistent Identifiers

• DOE OSTI Award DOI Service - Department of Energy (DOE) can help "DOE funding offices, national laboratories, and user facilities assign DOIs to awards, contracts, equipment, facilities, grants..."
• Research Resource Identification (RRID) - PID for biological resources
• Persistent Identifiers for scientific equipment, facilities, and instrumentation. Example: CU Boulder receives collaborative national grant for open science project

Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) "provide ways to connect research components...[and] promote FAIR practices but supporting linkages, providing increased discoverability, and enabling interoperability between research components" (PIDs@OSTI.gov). 

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information provides additional more information on Connecting Persistent Identifiers.

Johns Hopkins University DOI Services provides several important reasons to assign a type of PID (a DOI) to your dataset, including:

• Uniqueness
• Permanence
• Discoverability
• Citation 

Data Citation "is the practice of referencing data products used in research" (U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data Citation) and serves many purposes, including providing credit to authors, aiding in transparency and reproducibility, and tracking the impact and reuse of a dataset.

Additional resources:

• DataCite: Data Citation
• Columbia University Irving Medical Center: Citing data sources - why is it good and how to do it?
• NYU Libraries: Data Sources Citing data
• ICPSR: Citing Data