{"id":17084,"date":"2016-11-10T16:50:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=17084"},"modified":"2016-12-03T10:18:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T10:18:54","slug":"pidapalooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=17084","title":{"rendered":"Pidapalooza!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is sent from the Pidapalooza event in Reykjavik, Iceland, and is a short collection of notable things I learnt or which attracted my attention.<\/p>\n

Firstly, what IS PIDapalooza<\/strong>[1]<\/a><\/span>? Well, it’s all about persistent identifiers, but don’t let that put you off! Another way of putting it is that it’s a way of finding things scientific on the Web. Not just publications, but conferences, social media, teaching, research datasets, infrastructure, grants, organizations, instruments, scientific objects and samples and no doubt much more. These (will) live in an inter-connected eco-system, and so the idea goes, will become an integral part of how a\u00a0scientist accumulates and disseminates information nowadays. Yes, the conference itself has its own PID: 10.5438\/11.0001<\/a>\u00a0 and the individual talks will also appear as both a collection and with their own \u00a0PID in the near future.<\/p>\n

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  1. The first example comes from WikiData, a collection of carefully curated data, from which can be dynamically assembled say a periodic table of the elements. All the data here is included from other objects, and everything is referenced by its PID. Since it’s all assembled from data, if say the name of element 118 is assigned, then it will automatically be absorbed into this presentation.