Persistent identifiers and discoverability

In order to track the impact of research outputs, academia has made use of persistent identifiers (PIDs). A PID is a link that is managed by an organization, that will always lead to the research output, regardless of a domain change. Different types of content have different PIDs. We love PID, like ORCID or GRID,…

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Building visualizations from FAIR data on Figshare

Recently, we’ve been looking at the reusability of data in line with the FAIR principles. The ‘R’ of FAIR stands for Reusable and refers to data whereby the: “R1. meta(data) have a plurality of accurate and relevant attributes. R1.1. (meta)data are released with a clear and accessible data usage license. R1.2. (meta)data are associated with their…

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