<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Everyone,<br><br>I am passing along this update from the iSamples project.  We have created a newsletter on the project progress and thought it might be of interest to this community.  You can view the newsletter in our Zenodo community space: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6582199">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6582199</a><br><br>iSamples is a 4 year, NSF funded project to build cyberinfrastructure that intends to revolutionize discoverability and the management of material samples. This newsletter contains updates on the pro<font face="arial, sans-serif">ject which incl</font>udes:<div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-3adbcde6-7fff-2bd1-4bae-f9a18317cf93"><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Prototype of </span><a href="https://hyde.cyverse.org/isamples_central/ui/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">iSamples Central web interface</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Draft </span><a href="https://isamplesorg.github.io/metadata" style="white-space:pre;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">core metadata model</span></a> for samples.</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Upper level </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6502970" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">controlled vocabularies for Specimen Type, Material Type, and Sampled Feature</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p></li></font></ul></span><div><br></div><div>You can provide feedback on these items by creating an issue on GitHub <a href="https://github.com/isamplesorg/home/issues/new">https://github.com/isamplesorg/home/issues/new</a></div><br>Thanks!<br>Sarah</div></div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dr. Sarah Ramdeen<br></div><div><a href="https://www.earth.columbia.edu/users/profile/sarah-elisabeth-ramdeen" target="_blank">Postdoctoral Research Scientist</a></div><div>Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University<br></div><div>ORCiD: <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1135-5942" target="_blank">0000-0003-1135-5942</a></div><div><br></div><div>Projects: <a href="http://geosamples.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">System for Earth Sample Registration</span></a> (SESAR), <a href="http://isamples.org/" style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px" target="_blank">iSamples</a>, <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><a href="http://samplingnature.org/" target="_blank">Sampling Nature RCN</a></span><br></div></div></div></div></div>