FAIRsharing record for: FAIR Principles F1: (Meta)data are assigned globally unique and persistent identifiers

This FAIRsharing record describes: FAIR Principles F1 states that (Meta)data should be assigned globally unique and persistent identifiers that serve as a permanent, machine interpretable reference. As such, this principle also relates to resolvability of the identifiers within FAIR Principle A1. Globally unique means that the identifier is guaranteed to unambiguously refer to the intended resources, making locally uniqueness (e.g. unique within a single, local database) insufficient. Persistence refers to the requirement that this globally unique identifier is never reused in another context, and continues to identify the same resource over time, even if that resource should no longer exist, or moves from one digital environment to another. While global uniqueness is a technical property (i.e., an algorithm that can guarantee with mathematical precision that the issued identifiers are unique), persistence is a social commitment made by the stakeholder responsible for issuing the identifiers, that these identifiers will continue to map to the objects they identify for a defined period of time. Due to the relationship among global uniqueness, persistence and resolvability, please note that the GO FAIR Foundation states that FAIR implementations should have Globally Unique, Persistent and Resolvable Identifiers (GUPRIs). (Text modified from: see reference URL.)