Service for Data Retrieval via Persistent Identifiers

摘要

Persistent identifiers for research data citation have become commonplace yet current practices of minting them need evaluation to see how the data cited can be actually discovered, contextualized and processed in scalable eInfrastructures that serve both human users and machine agents. The existing means of data identifiers dereferencing can be used for basic data contextualization but more sophisticated contextualization services are required to make data readily available for automated retrieval and processing. This work takes a look at the data identifiers minting practices and discusses a possible design of a service for the machine-assisted or fully automated retrieval of formally citeable data.