Who Did What to Which Dinosaur? Provenance Tracking with RAiDs

At Naturalis Biodiversity Center, we deal with a wide variety of research activities: analyses of genomic sequences, studies of physical collection specimens, and images from biomonitoring cameras, to name a few. In turn, those activities produce all sorts of data and involve different people, equipment, software tools, possibly from different projects and institutions. We started exploring how Research Activity Identifiers (RAiDs) can help in linking all those disparate elements together in a pilot study, and we're taking those insights along as we continue our developments around PIDs. So... ...are you wondering how to implement RAiDs across complex, scary, real-world scenarios?...are you also confused about what qualifies as a "research activity" and what doesn't?...and would you like to know how RAiDs come into a picture full of sample IDs, project numbers, and specimen labels flying around? Then this lighting talk is for you!