Recommendations for data curators:

Enable, train and encourage staff to register IGSN when samples are taken.

Enable, train and encourage staff to record any parent IGSNs with subsamples.

Recommendations for data infrastructures:

record an ORCID with any person registered

treat ORCID metadata as the primary source of truth and update yourr own metadata accordingly.

inform persons if you think the ORCID is not accurate, or request permission to update the ORCID metadata.

consider ORCID as an attribute in identity and access management systems (IAM), authentication and authorisation infrastructures (AAI)

record a ROR to identify organizations make this data part of the metadata available for harvesting.

treat ROR metadata as the primary source of truth and update your own metadata accordingly.

inform the organizations if you think the metadata registered with the ROR is not accurate.

record a PIDInst with instruments registered in data infrastructures.

treat PIDInst metadata as the primary source of truth and update your own metadata accordingly.

inform the responsible person if you think the PIDInst metadata is not accurate.

record a IGSN to identify samples and parent samples and make this data part of the metadata available for harvesting.

treat IGSN metadata as the primary source of truth and update your own metadata accordingly.