Do any of you obtain International Generic Sample Numbers (IGSN) for your physical samples? If so, do you use SESAR2 or some other source?
At BLE LTER, we want to archive physical samples, but I’m finding it hard to figure out the best way forward since we’re just getting started with that, from a cataloging and metadata perspective. I’d appreciate any tips!
Hi Tim, yes, we use IGSNs for all NEON Biorepository samples. Example:
NEON01IGJ
https://app.geosamples.org/sample/igsn/10.58052/NEON01IGJ&header=1
etc.
Questions – please try a ticket here: help. symbiota. org
Cheers, Nico
Tim, it would be great to register our HBR samples in this system to increase visibility.
I hope we hear more about this tomorrow at the PI/IMC sample discussion.
Symbiota (which is what NEON uses), apparently also allows (requires?) the creation of IGSNs, so it’s not strictly either/or.
Folks - I’ve recently noticed that there is a fairly active ESIP cluster for Physical Sample Archiving. They seem to talk about IGSNs, and perhaps other PIDs for samples, on the regular. I’m planning to jump into some of their meetings soon, and it may be worthwhile for other LTER folks to check in once in a while too.
Correct. Symbiota - i.e., any Symbiota-based portal - does not require IGSNs. But the specific Symbiota-based NEON Biorepository data portal does (require IGSNs), and also handles the full IGSN identifier issues/registration, through API services, at the time of sample ingestion into the NEON Biorepository. These newly coined IGSNs are then also propagated back into NEON’s main portal.
Symbiota can thereby also handle and propagate one or more NEON legacy sample identifiers. E.g.
For NEON Biorepository Data Portal Detailed Collection Record Information
The catalog number is the registered IGSN. The other identifiers are what the samples were born with, so to speak, within the NEON sampling process.
Cheers, Nico
