FAIRsharing record for: FAIR Metric - F1-PID - Metadata - Persistent identifiers for database content

This FAIRsharing record describes: FM:F1-PID:M:PID-ARK is a database-level metric that requires the minting of persistent identifiers for at least some of the content within the database being evaluated.

It expects a FAIRsharing URL or DOI as its input and evaluates that FAIRsharing record for the guaranteed persistence of the identifier schema as defined by the identifier schema record type in FAIRsharing (see our gitbook documentation linked as part of this record for more information about id schemas for databases and how to curate them in a FAIRsharing record). An important facet of FAIR for databases is that they mint persistent identifiers. As described by the GFF, global uniqueness guarantees the unambiguous referencing of the described resource; it is insufficient for it to be unique only locally. Persistence refers to the requirement that this globally unique identifier is never reused elsewhere and continues to identify the same resource over time.