A Primer for FDO Profile Creation Based on Early Experience

Abstract

This paper summarizes the contents of a lightning talk at the FDO Summit 2024  about the creation of a FDO Profile for the kernel attributes in a PID record. It describes the early experience that DiSSCo had with creating FDO Profiles for Digital Specimens and related digital objects. The Digital Specimen FDOs act as a digital surrogate for specimens held in natural science collections. The work done in DiSSCo resulted in a set of 13 core attributes used for all FDO Types in DiSSCo, complemented with additional domain specific attributes. These core attributes and reasons for deviation with the RDA PID Kernel recommendation are presented in the lightning talk.