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

固体地球样品登记处（SESAR）解决了地球科学网络基础设施发展中对唯一样品标识符的迫切需求。该项目将建立一个基于网络的固体地球样本数字登记处，这将首次提供一种在全球范围内对样本进行唯一命名和识别的方法，同时沿着生成条形码，并提供一个方便用户的界面。建立这样的系统将对样品和数据管理产生广泛的影响，特别是在样品共享和数据集成方面。SESAR是对样品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，并且同一个样本通常被重命名，这使得很难在关系数据库中链接样本的不同数据。该系统能够追踪样本的整个历史，因此，在进行新的测量或开发新的技术时，将有助于调查人员利用以前收集的样本数据。唯一标识符还将极大地提高基于样本的数据的信息系统之间的互操作性，为发现和跨学科的研究方法提供广泛的新机会。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处理基于样本的数据的数据和信息管理项目，如CHRONOS，EarthChem，SedDB，仅举几例，PaleoStrat由于无法唯一地识别样本，在将不同的样本数据联系起来和开发系统之间的互操作性方面受到严重阻碍。固体地球样品登记处（SESAR）将允许广泛的基于样品的数据类型被链接和整合，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.