Implementing PID Policy in Dataverse: Challenges and Opportunities

The Dataverse repository software is one of the most developed platforms for data curation available in the market. Importantly, it strives to provide platform that allows curating data in best possible compliance with the FAIR guiding principles and the TRUST principles for digital repositories. However, different aspects of the aforementioned principles require complex implementations that are not always easily achieved. One of the important principles related to data discoverability is persistent identifier (PID) issuing for data objects (data/documentation files, datasets, data collections etc.). In its current version (6.4) Dataverse allows issuing globally unique persistent identifiers for datasets and data/documentation files within datasets. Organizations that employ Dataverse software for data curation in their repositories are dependent of the software when formulating their PID issuing policy. In this poster we will attempt to demonstrate PID issuing opportunities and limitations provided by the Dataverse software and how this may affect available options for data curating organizations that are in the process of (or plan to) developing PID issuing policy for their data objects. It will also try to hint at possible future developments needed for Dataverse software in order to make it even more flexible platform providing diverse solutions for PID issuing.