SESAR Workshop: Designing Interoperablility for Sample-based Data Management via the International Geo Sample Number IGSN

摘要固体地球样本注册（SESAR）解决了地球科学网络基础设施发展中对唯一样本标识符的迫切需求。该项目将为固体地球样品建立一个基于网络的数字注册表，这将首次提供一种在全球范围内唯一命名和识别样品的方法，并通过用户友好的界面生成条形码。建立这样的系统将对样本和数据管理产生广泛的影响，特别是在样本共享和数据整合方面。SESAR是对样本命名模糊问题的回应，这一直是地球科学网络基础设施发展的主要障碍。不同的样本通常被赋予相同的名称，并且相同的样本经常被重命名，这使得在关系数据库中为样本链接不同的数据变得困难。通过跟踪样本历史的能力，该系统将促进调查人员在进行新测量或开发新技术时建立以前收集的样本数据的能力。唯一标识符还将极大地促进基于样本数据的信息系统之间的互操作性，为发现和跨学科研究方法开辟广泛的新机会。SESAR将对地球科学的未来产生巨大影响，因为几个主要的现有和新兴的数据和信息管理项目处理基于样本的数据，如CHRONOS、EarthChem、SedDB、古地层——仅举几例——由于无法唯一识别样本，它们在连接不同样本数据和开发系统间互操作性方面的潜力受到严重阻碍。固体地球样本登记（SESAR）将允许将广泛的基于样本的数据类型联系和集成，从而导致新的跨学科研究方法。

ABSTRACTThe Solid Earth SAmple Registry (SESAR) addresses the urgent need for unique sample identifiers in the development of a Geoscience Cyberinfrastructure. The project will build a web-based digital registry for solid earth samples that will provide for the first time a way to uniquely name and identify samples on a global scale, along with the generation of barcodes, with a user-friendly interface. Establishing such system will have a wide-ranging impact on sample and data management, especially with respect to sample sharing and data integration. SESAR is a response to the problem of ambiguous naming of samples, which has been a major obstacle in the development of a Geosciences Cyberinfrastructure. Different samples are often given identical names, and the same sample is often renamed, making it difficult to link disparate data for a sample in relational databases. Through the ability to track a sample through its history, the system will facilitate the ability of investigators to build on previously collected data on samples as new measurements are made or techniques are developed. The unique identifiers will also dramatically advance interoperability among information systems for sample-based data, opening an extensive range of new opportunities for discovery and for interdisciplinary approaches in research.SESAR will have a dramatic impact on the future of the Geosciences, as several major existing and emerging data and information management projects that handle sample-based data, such as CHRONOS, EarthChem, SedDB, PaleoStrat - to name a few - are seriously hampered in their potential to link disparate data for samples and develop interoperability among the systems by the inability to uniquely identify samples. The Solid Earth SAmple Registry (SESAR) will allow wide ranges of sample-based data types to be linked and integrated, thus leading to new interdisciplinary approaches in research.