PID use cases

This is a collection of good, real life scientific use cases for Persistent Identifiers.

• Integration with Provenance tracking

• Link all components of an experiment to the corresponding Laboratory Notebook

• Integration with Workflow management by identifying the workflow description and the needed data and parameters

• Data publication and research validation

• Long term storage, migration from disk to tape (or OpenBIS Repositories)

• Substituting custom references for data fragments (e.g., database record)

• Identifier for Docker images

• Identify standard training data for Deep Learning (e.g., the MNIST database of handwritten digits)

Sure, there are many more examples. If you want, send us (pid@cscs.ch) the missing ones.