An Online Registry for Unique Sample Identification in the Earth Sciences

Lehnert（0552153）本项目开发了一个基于网络的登记处，用于生成和管理地球科学样本的全球唯一标识符：国际地球样本编号（IGSN）。 这使得地球科学界能够克服样本命名模糊的问题，这限制了共享，链接和整合地质样本数据的能力。这项工作的动机使地质样本能够被不同的研究人员轻松访问和研究，他们在不同的时间产生不同类型的数据，其结果发表在不同的论文中并存储在不同的数据库中。联合地球科学数据管理和网络基础设施项目（例如GEON、CHRONOS、EarthChem、PaleoStrat、海洋地球科学数据管理系统、Janus/ODP）准备建立综合系统，其中各组成部分通过交换信息和整合不同的数据集进行互操作。但是，为了完全实现，需要此示例注册表。要做的大部分工作侧重于开发一个全球地理标志序号，该序号将与所有样本-子样本关系（例如元数据）一起沿着记录。 更广泛的影响使储存库管理员和科学家能够链接和整合单个样本的数据，促进新的跨学科科学方法。独特的样品标识有助于样品的保存和管理，并促进样品和基于样品的数据的共享。IGSN作为一个永久的唯一ID，可以为收集的地质材料建立全面的数据集。

ABSTRACT Lehnert (0552153)This project develops a web-based registry that generates and administers globally unique identifiers for Geoscience samples: the International Geo Sample Number (IGSN). This permits the geoscience community to overcome the problem of ambiguous naming of samples, which has limited the ability to share, link, and integrate geological sample-based data. The motivation for the work allows geological samples to be easily accessed and studied by different researchers who produce diverse types of data at different times, the results of which are published in different papers and stored in different databases. Allied geoscience data management and cyberinfrastructure projects (e.g. GEON, CHRONOS, EarthChem, PaleoStrat, the Marine Geoscience Data Management System, Janus/ODP) are poised to build integrated systems in which components interoperate by exchanging information and integrating disparate data sets. For full implementation, however, this sample registry Is required. Most of the work to be done focuses on developing an IGSN, which will be recorded along with all sample-subsample relationships (e.g. metadata). Broader impacts allow repository curators and scientists to link and integrate data for individual samples, fostering new cross-disciplinary approaches in science. Unique sample identification aids the preservation and curation of samples, as well as facilitates sharing of samples and sample-based data. The IGSN as a persistent unique ID allows the building of comprehensive data sets for collected geological materials.