**Recommendation 3.0 **

======Recommendation to use PIDInst as the standard reference in technical infrastructures to measuring devices or instruments where appropriate ======

=====Description=====

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=====Motivation for this Recommendation: =====

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=====Recommendation ====

PIDInst  is used to identify instruments in data infrastructures.


For organizations this means:
   * Employ measures and incentives to register instruments with PIDInst at acquisition. 
   * make a person responsible to maintain the PIDInst for each instrument (e.g. Lab technicians). 
For technicians:
   * register a PIDInst for instruments which weren’t registered yet.
   * keep the PIDInst related metadata of your instruments current.
   * Keep a written record of the PIDInst on every instrument, where possible
   * share the PIDInst with the customer with any measurement data you deliver.
For researchers it means:
   * Record an PIDInst with any measurement. You should find it on the instrument. 
For data infrastructures:
   * 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.



[shortened from below]

[Format: Wer! macht was! wo! wann! unter welchen Voraussetzungen!]

=====Binding Convention: =====


^                         ^ mandatory  ^ conditional	          ^ optional ^
^ Helmholtz FAIR Principle|            |      |          |

=====Precondition for Implementation: =====

=====Related Recommendations =====

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Dependent:

Other: none

=====Contributors=====

Names of contributors to this recommendation

=====Content=====

====1. Explanation of the Background and Benefits of the Recommendation ====

__About__

__History and structure__

__Current Use of ...__

__Motivation__

====2. Possible alternative solutions====

====3. Consideration of the advantages and disadvantages of implementing the recommendation====

(quality of content, limitations, interoperability, sustainability:
expected future dissemination / technical availability / funding)

====4. The Recommendation====

[Format: Wer! macht was! wo! wann! unter welchen Voraussetzungen!]

====5. Naming of communities that have already implemented the recommendation====

====6. Documentation of the test to validate correct implementation====



====7. Examples of Instances====

====8. Further Information====

===References===

===Relevant Community Recommendations===

====9. History of this document====