- Why do we need decentralised reproducible IDs for the data?
- Global endeavours may create trillions of necessary PIDs for only the research artifacts that will be created during the next decade.
- Reproducibility becomes an essential part of the persistent identification workflow as the non-reproducible identifiers make it impossible to build the system that is sustainable to both controlled and non-controlled content drift.
- In centralised PID systems, the persistence of the actual addressed data is yielded to the publisher. In this case the prevalence of rotting links seems impossible to cope with.
- Human intervention based on social contracts is inacceptable as a part of minting pipeline.
- What would we expect from the decentralised PID system?
- Open participation - access the storage backend grants redundancy for every participant.
- Distributed ledgering. The special flavour of blockchain guarantees all the versioned records are linked in immutable manner.
- FAIR compliance. dPID as current implementation facilitates most of the FAIR Principles and Guidelines, moving the data sharing towards the linked knowledge management.
Andrey Vukolov�Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste