Presentations from EULiST Workshop on PIDINST

Context for material: In September 2026, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) hosted the EULiST Workshop on PIDINST in Madrid, bringing together partners across the EULiST European University Alliance to explore the implementation of persistent identifiers for scientific instruments and research equipment. 

Workshop contributions:

• Stocker, M., Krahl, R., Huber, R., Springer, F., et al. (2026). Persistent identification of instruments: An introduction [Presentation].
• Springer, F. (2026). Quality and quantity of PIDINST metadata records [Presentation].
• Mathes, T. (2026). Persistent identification of instruments in active research workflows – Implementation in RSpace [Presentation].
• Nguyen, H. (2026). Materials Instruments: An Instruments Registry. A Service of FID Materials Science [Presentation].
• Springer, F. (2026). PID4NFDI instrument use cases [Presentation].
• Heni, M. (2026). PID.at. Starting from scratch: The road to PIDs for instruments in Austria [Presentation].
• Kovacevic, F. (2026). The illusion of persistence. Why PIDs alone are not enough to preserve research metadata [Presentation].

Further information:

PIDINST is a metadata schema for persistent identifiers of scientific instruments. It defines how instruments, such as microscopes, telescopes, sensors, or sequencing machines, can be uniquely and persistently identified and described, enabling them to be referenced in research outputs, datasets, and research infrastructures. The ability to link an active instrument (instance) with an instrument type and with the broader context in which the instrument operates, including generated data, other instruments and platforms, people and manufacturers, etc., is critical, especially for automated processing of such contextual information and for the interpretation of generated data. PIDINST aims to establish a cross-disciplinary, operational solution for the unique and long-term identification of measuring instruments actively used in scientific research.