EOSC PID Policy Roles

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On completion, the work will support an additional role and associated component for the EOSC PID Policy, as follows: Compliance Monitoring (Role) - One or more organisations that provide services to monitor and/ or enforce compliance (with PID Policy), resulting in interoperable compliance metrics for the roles and components foreseen in the policy.

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The end user of PID Services, for example researchers, or software, or services produced to support researchers.

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“Each credentialed MPA operates its own GHR Services in accordance with the DONA Foundation Policies & Procedures for the GHR, and coordinates its GHR Services with other MPAs and DONA in the distributed operation of the GHR on a multi-primary basis.” (DOI and Handle Only)

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A controller responsible for maintaining the rules for defining the integrity of PIDs within a PID Scheme. These rules may include setting standards for lexical formats, algorithms and protocols to ensure global uniqueness, together with setting quality of service conditions to enforce compliance to the rules. PID Authorities may be organisations (e.g. DONA), which enforce control over a PID infrastructure. A Persistent Identifier (PID) policy for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) [42] also allow Authorities which do not have a central control (for example Software Heritage persistent identifiers and W3C’s Decentralised Identifiers), but provide a community standardisation mechanism that specifies the conformance of PIDs to a PID Scheme.

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PID Managers have responsibilities to maintain the integrity of the relationship between entities and their PIDs, in conformance to a PID Scheme defined by a PID Authority. A PID Manager will typically subscribe to PID services to offer functionality to PID Owners within the PID Manager’s services. One example is a Service Provider which uses PID Services as part of its own service delivery. For example, PID Managers may include a provider of a data repository, a data catalogue, or a research workflow system.

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An actor (an organisation or individual) who has the authority to create a PID, assign PID to an entity, provide and maintain accurate Kernel Information for the PID. A new PID Owner must be identified and these responsibilities transferred, if the current PID Owner is no longer able to carry them out.

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A set of rules and standards defining the nature of a PID. This would include a set of lexical formatting rules for PIDs within a namespace. It could also define for example: associated PID Type; definition of associated metadata; quality assurance conditions; usage rights, terms and conditions, and algorithmic methods for generating PID names and enforcing PID properties.

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Basic services are those that create, manage and resolve PIDs and their associated kernel information which conforms to a PID Scheme. Advanced, value-added services may also be provided, for example attribute search or metrics.

An organisation which provides PID services in conformance to a PID Scheme, subject to its PID Authority. PID Service Providers have responsibility for the provision, integrity, reliability and scalability of PID Services, in particular the issuing and resolution of PIDs, but also lookup and search services, and interoperability with a generic resolution system.

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The standard(s) determining the architecture and services assocaited with a PID Scheme. This may ionclude identifier constraints and rules, namespace considerations, and definition/ specification of services and content.

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The body, governance mechanism, or institution responsible for maintenance of the standard(s) applicable to a schema.