On 7–10 June, the IASSIST 2022 conference takes place in Gothenburg, with SND as their host organization. The theme for this year’s conference is “Data by Design – Building a Sustainable Data Culture”. Several members of the SND staff will be present at the conference. In the weeks leading up to the conference, we will present some of the sessions with SND staff.
Olof Olsson, IT architect at SND, will hold a brief presentation on 10 June, under the heading “1001 files and one dataset”.
Tell us a little about your presentation at the IASSIST conference
I’ll be talking about PIDs (persistent identifiers) on datasets and other digital objects, for example how you can work with both DOI and ePIC. Those two types of identifiers aren’t used for the same objects; DOI is used for datasets, and ePIC is useful to identify smaller types of objects, such as files and other individual items in a dataset.
What we’re investigating now is how to connect SND’s DOI service to ePIC. Our goal is to make it possible to cite individual files or other digital objects in a dataset without having to provide rich metadata for each item.
Why is it important to share and discuss this with other people?
We want to highlight the need for persistent identifiers on various types of digital objects in general. We also want to talk about SND’s involvement in ePIC. We’ve been managing the service for about six months now, but it’s been in use for quite a long time, both in Sweden and internationally.
What are you looking forward to at the IASSIST conference and what do you hope to take away from it?
I’m a veteran to IASSIST, so I’m really looking forward to seeing my colleagues again. It’s been three years since we met. I’ve been to nine IASSIST conferences so far, the first being 2010 in Ithaca, New York.
I’m also happy that there will be several Swedish presentations, for example from people in the SND network. It’s always good to raise our eyes and take a wider perspective, especially to see how others have solved open science related questions.