[Esip-esda] EGU 2017 Short Course "Linking your samples to data and publications: Introducing IGSN"

[Jens.Klump at csiro.au]

Dear Colleagues,


IGSN is hosting a short course "Linking your samples to data and publications: Introducing IGSN" at the EGU General Assembly 2017.


SC70 Linking your samples to data and publications: Introducing IGSN

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/session/25707


Sunday, 23 April 2017, 1330-1700 CET, Room -2.31


Physical sampling (taking specimens) is a fundamental strategy in many natural sciences, typically to support ex-situ observations in laboratories with the goal of characterizing real-world entities or populations. The ability to assign web identifiers to the digital representations of these physical samples allows us to link to data, literature, investigators and institutions, thus creating an "Internet of Samples".

This course will introduce the International Geo Sample Number (IGSN) which has been used to provide unique identifiers for rock, fossil, mineral, soil, regolith, plant and synthetic materials. Each IGSN directs to a digital representation of the physical object. IGSN is used in Universities, Museums, National Research Centres and Geological Surveys in North America, Australia, Europe, South Africa, Korea and Japan.

Contents of the short course:
(a) Review of the workflow of the sampling process from the field to the recording of observations and measurements through to final publication;
(b) Show how individual samples and derivative subsamples can be assigned IGSN unique identifiers;
(c) How these sample identifiers can be linked to multiple digital observations and measurements recorded;
(d) How samples and data can be linked in a publication;
(e) How the IGSN can be used to determine how your samples relate to others sampling campaigns
(f) How IGSN can be used to link your research to datasets and publications on similar samples
(g) How to work with IGSN Agents to register new IGSN.


Registration for the for the short course is now open at https://goo.gl/forms/aZGSXnBMxNOl3iQg2


Regards,


Jens Klump


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Dr Jens Klump
Science Leader Earth Science Informatics
Geoscience Analytics Team Leader
Mineral Resources
CSIRO

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