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Internet of Samples (iSamples): Toward an interdisciplinary cyberinfrastructure for material samples
Neil Davies1,2, John Deck3, Eric C Kansa4
1Gump South Pacific Research Station, University of California, BP 244, Moorea 98728, French Polynesia.
Abstract:
Sampling the natural world and built environment underpins much of science, yet systems for managing material samples and associated (meta)data are fragmented across institutional catalogs, practices for identification, and discipline-specific (meta)data standards. The Internet of Samples (iSamples) is a standards-based collaboration to uniquely, consistently, and conveniently identify material samples, record core metadata about them, and link them to other samples, data, and research products. iSamples extends existing resources and best practices in data stewardship to render a cross-domain cyberinfrastructure that enables transdisciplinary research, discovery, and reuse of material samples in 21st century natural science.
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