Include information about persistent identifiers

[MathewBiddle]

The new OSTP PARR memo puts an emphasis on digital persistent identifiers. While we don't have to do anything about it yet, we should be thinking about persistent identifiers anyways.

I propose that this documentation should include information/guidance on US MBON's approach to the following categories of digital persistent identifiers:

• Data (DOI through repositories (eg. NCEI, OBIS/GBIF/USGS??)
• Person (ORCiD)
• Institution (ROR, ORCiD, OceanExpert (although I don't think that's appropriate as a persistent identifier))

We should include information about:

1. Why we need them
2. How to get them
3. How they get used

[laurabrenskelle]

Another topic I'd also like to discuss more. It also seems like it is related to the broader discussion about PARR requirements, NCEI collection metadata, and aligning practices across the various IOOS DACs.

[MathewBiddle]

@sformel-usgs GBIF makes ROR's available from occurrence records. Is this something we can work with on the OBIS side?

https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/4537288374

[sformel-usgs]

Probably, Keep an eye on these for now and then we can talk to OBIS.

1. We have a request in for adding RORs to the IPT: addition of ROR as identifier for EML entities gbif/ipt#2373
2. A request to be able to search RORs via the DwC field institutionID: searching institutionID gbif/portal-feedback#5348

[MathewBiddle]

Some RA's already have ROR's:

• NERACOOS - https://ror.org/05ackpy69
• GLOS - https://ror.org/036ftwn63

IOOS has a ROR:

• IOOS - https://ror.org/01yvark48