PID-Component

A Web Component for Visualizing (not Only) FAIR Digital Objects

Abstract

The FAIR Digital Objects concept is primarily designed for machine readability, machine interpretability and machine actionability, which results in a highly complex and interconnected infrastructure. To improve the integration, usability, and acceptance of FAIR Digital Objects (FAIR-DOs) - especially among non-technical users - it is therefore important to provide user-friendly and straightforward solutions. This work presents the pid-component, a reusable and highly extensible web component for framework-agnostic visualization of a variety of inputs, including Persistent Identifiers (PIDs), Data Types, ORCiDs, and others. For users, the pid-component provides a clean, uniform, and minimalistic interface for consuming FAIR-DOs. For developers, it enables easy integration into their platforms with minimal effort. This is achieved through a highly modular design with a compact form factor, aligning with the height of a single regular text line, and a minimalistic design approach focused on usability. The pid-component is based on a series of W3C web standards and can be explored through an interactive playground, enabling developers to grasp the functionalities of the pid-component.