=== 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.