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Granularity

Concept · General Glossary of PID Terms · Draft

Terms

  • Preferred term, Draft

Definition

  • The varying levels of hierarchy or constituent parts that may form data or other research outputs. For example, the differing levels of granularity of a research publication, going from a whole Journal issue, the level of detail in a large scientific database. to its constituent articles, to the article constituent sections or figures, the levels in a complex scientific collection or the level of detail in a large scientific database.
    With respect to the timing of PID assignment and the issues of granularity and versioning, there are different practices across domains and PID service providers. Repositories (and other data providers) need to make clear which policies they apply, particularly with respect to the recommended timing of assignment, and the granularity needed. However, a few rules of thumb can be given, including 1) In general a DO should be assigned a PID as early as possible, at least at the time it is uploaded into a trustworthy repository; 2) In order to optimally support citations and later re-use, PIDs should in general be assigned to the smallest “chunks” of scientifically meaningful digital information (“data”) that is practical to refer to. This often translates into a high granularity, but there are many exceptions where it is desirable to assign a PID to e.g. large data sets or to collections.

Note

  • Source: X-EOSC (EOSC PID Architecture ),
  • Source: X-GEDE (GEDE: Persistent identifiers: Consolidated assertions),
  • Source: PID POLICY (PID POLICY)

Example

    Additional technical information

    Organization
    • MSCR testers
    Created at
    03/05/2024, 7.18
    Modified at
    03/05/2024, 7.18
    URI
    http://uri.suomi.fi/terminology/84e83a4b/concept-0