Towards Trusted Identities for Swiss Researchers and their Data

Abstract

In this paper we report on efforts to enhance the Swiss persistent identifer (PID) ecosystem. We will frstly describe the current situation and the need for improvement in order to describe in full detail the steps undertaken to create a Swiss-wide model. A case study was undertaken by using several data sets from the domains of art and design in the context of the ICOPAD project. We will provide a set of recommendations to enable a PID service that could mint Archival Resource Key (ARK) identifers or a .avour of Research Resource Identifers (RRIDs) as complement to Digital Object Identifers (DOIs). We will conclude with some remarks concerning the transferability of this approach to other areas and the requirements for a national hub for PID management in Switzerland. Received 06 December 2018 ~ Revision received 18 October 2019 ~ Accepted 06 January 2020 Correspondence should be addressed to René Schneider, HEG-Genève, Rue de la Tambourine 17, CH-1227 Carouge, Switzerland. Email: [email protected] An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 14 International Digital Curation Conference. The International Journal of Digital Curation is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of digital curation across a wide range of sectors. The IJDC is published by the University of Edinburgh on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre. ISSN: 1746-8256. URL: http://www.ijdc.net/ Copyright rests with the authors. This work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence, version 4.0. For details please see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ International Journal of Digital Curation 2020, Vol. 14, Iss. 1, 303–314 303 http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v14i1.596 DOI: 10.2218/ijdc.v14i1.596 304 | Towards Trusted Identites for Swiss Researchers doi:10.2218/ijdc.v14i1.596