Question #2260
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Minting PIDs
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Hi,
I am not sure whether this feature has been brought out before but it doesn't seem to be included in the roadmap.
Is it possible to implement the PID minting for objects or other entities on the fly?
The PID service can either come from the paid ones such as Datacite or Handle, or free ones such as Ark or w3id (https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org).
Updated by Alexander Watzinger 9 days ago
- Tracker changed from Feature to Question
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Assignee set to Alexander Watzinger
Thank you for making us aware of this.
Although using PIDs is an importing topic, it would be more interesting/usable for e.g. presentation sites because OpenAtlas itself is only meant for data acquiring/managing and only has restricted access (via the user system).
By the way and unrelated to the topic, the GitHub project you provided a link for (https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org) has an interesting warning: "Sorry, we had to truncate this directory to 1,000 files. 271 entries were omitted from the list.". I have never seen this before.
Updated by Gary Hsu 9 days ago
Thanks for your response.
Perhaps I can address this in another way.
Assuming I have generated PIDs for my objects, can I use APIs the same way as the controlled vocabularies to extract PIDs?
I am wondering if it can be done at the moment at the technological level. or is there any automated way?
In a sense, it would look like a DOI for a publication. The link will be directed to a landing page of an object/sample. It can also applied to any digital objects such as images, videos, and documents.
Updated by Alexander Watzinger 9 days ago
- Status changed from Closed to In Progress
- Assignee changed from Alexander Watzinger to Bernhard Koschiček-Krombholz
I re-opened the issue because of the latest response.
I'm not sure about the latest question so I'm assigning this to Bernhard who is in charge of the API. Maybe he can add some information about it.
Updated by Bernhard Koschiček-Krombholz 9 days ago
Since OpenAtlas itself is not public (everything with a GUI is behind a login), we disregarded the thoughts for persistent identifier service.
Each entity you insert has an ID which is unique. So, if a textual form of representation of your entities are enough, then you could use https://your-domain.org/api/entity/<entity_id> (e.g. https://demo.openatlas.eu/api/entity/4840) as kind of PID.
Do I understand you correctly: you are asking for a "simple" landing page, like the detail view of an entity in the current user interface, but that is public available? The PID minting, you have to do by yourself, but you need that landing page?
That, I find that an interesting idea, and I will put it on the agenda of our next developer meeting to discuss it there.