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Arctos is a museum collections management system
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iSamples #3965

Closed Jegelewicz closed 2 years ago

Jegelewicz commented 3 years ago

https://isamplesorg.github.io/home/

For future reference. May have implications for https://github.com/ArctosDB/arctos/issues/3630

mkoo commented 2 years ago

reminder to check in with Deck and Davies about iSamples updates and whether its products have use or implications for Arctos

Jegelewicz commented 2 years ago

Can I also say that this stuff makes me insane? Between TDWG, iSamples and now just individual institutions creating "standards" it is wonder anyone can talk to anyone....

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2129268

The complex landscape of intellectual, technical, social, legal, and regulatory issues surrounding material and data sharing often results in insurmountable barriers to making them FAIR. Overcoming these barriers demands not only robust transdisciplinary infrastructure, but also community-driven metadata standards and effective data policies, combined with training and outreach to support adoption. The Sampling Nature Research Coordination Network (RCN) will maximize the natural history value chain that samples nature at field sites, labs, repositories, and museums; processes those samples for scientific analyses; and stores the resulting materials and derived data in diverse and distributed databases and repositories.

Through a series of thematic workshops and regular virtual events, Sampling Nature will build a community of collaborative researchers to exploit the potential of an accessible, integrated corpus of material sample data. The RCN will deliver an extensible, domain neutral, community-driven metadata standard, with recommendations for its short- and long-term governance; policy recommendations around the collection, transport, storage, preservation, and sharing of material samples; training materials covering best practices for sample identification and metadata; an innovative social media campaign to communicate the importance of material samples in science, society, and sustainability. Sampling Nature brings together a new and interdisciplinary group of PIs that will engage researchers from multiple NSF directorates, federal agencies, Indigenous groups, museums, publishers, and infrastructure.

Does NSF not know about TDWG or any other standards-setting bodies?

Jegelewicz commented 2 years ago

FWIW, iSamples may end up incorporated into Darwin Core as part of the MaterialSample Task Group work.....