overview of the igsn discovery portal

Implementing Sample Identification in Australia – The IGSN Pilot Project

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Jens Klump | OCE Science Leader Earth Science InformaticsAnusuriya Devaraju, Pavel Golodoniuc, Simon Cox, Lesley Wyborn, Irina Bastrakova

02 November 2016

IGSN in Australia | Jens Klump

IGSN in Australia

• IGSN currently has three members in Australia:• CSIRO• Geoscience Australia• Curtin University

• Joint governance of the use of IGSN in Australia.

• Community building (e.g. workshops) to introduce sample identifiers to other institutions and other science disciplines.

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IGSN @ CSIRO

• CSIRO became a member of IGSN in 2013.

• IGSN are currently used for:• Collection of the Australian

Resources Research Centre• Mineral Reflectance Spectra

Reference Collection• Future use cases:

• Soils collection• Insect collection

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IGSN @ Geoscience Australia

• GA became a member of IGSN in 2014.

• IGSN are currently used in the GA collection.

• 1.6 Million samples registered.• GA is the IGSN Registration

Agent for the geological surveys of the Australian states and territories.

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IGSN @ Curtin

• Curtin University became a member of IGSN in 2015.

• IGSN is currently used in the John de Laeter Centre for Geochemistry.

• IGSN and data management are supported by the Curtin University Library.

• JdLC, CSIRO, Univ. Western Australia and Geol. Survey of Western Australia work together in the Natural Resources Research Precinct.

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International Geo Sample Number (IGSN)• Globally unique, persistent identifier for physical samples and sample collections.

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A rock collection curated by the Australian Resources Research Centre (ARRC)

(http://hdl.handle.net/10273/CSRWASC00630)IGSN:CSRWASC00630

The landing page of the collection CSRWASC00630


IGSN System Overview

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Allocating Agent

Register(registration schema)

Register (description schema)

Handle.net Registry

Community PortalHarvest

catalogue (OAI-PMH)

• Clients register samples with an allocating agent.

• The agent registers those samples with IGSN e.V.

IGSN e.V.

IGSN Users (Clients)

CSIRO as an IGSN Allocating Agent

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• CSIRO became a member of IGSN in 2013.• Use of IGSN was initiated in Mineral Resources research in CSIRO.• IGSN clients in CSIRO : individual researchers, laboratories and projects.• We use IGSN to identify samples and sample collections.

Repository Material IGSN Registration (14.06.2016)

Repository of the Australian Resources Research Centre (ARRC)

Rock, Mineral, Soil 25654

Australian National Collection of Mineral Reference Spectra

Mineral, Rock, Synthetic Material

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Capricorn Distal Footprints Project* Water, Vegetation, Soil, Rock, Regolith

2374


Sample Repositories in CSIRO

Identifier Governance in CSIRO

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• Following the IGSN Technical Specification, we established rules for allocating IGSN to samples and collections in different parts of the organisation.

• Different namespace strategies may be used by other allocating agents.


Allocating Agent’s Namespace

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IGSN : CSRWASC00630

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1Sub namespace of a client

Sample code specified by the client

CSIRO-IGSN : System Development

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• We developed several components to support sample registration and discovery.


IGSN e.V. Registry

Metadata Store (PostgreSQL)

IGSN Registration Service

CSIRO OAI-PMH Data Provider Service

OAI-PMH Harvester

SESAR OAI-PMH Data Provider Service

Australian IGSN Portal

CSIRO-IGSN Clients:• Capricorn Distal Footprints• ARRC Collections• Mineral Reference Spectra

harvest

harvest register*

register

CSIRO-IGSN Registration Service : https://igsn.csiro.au/csiroPOST /subnamespace (Register sub-namespace)GET /subnamespace/all (Get all sub-namespaces)POST /igsn/ (Register samples)GET /metadata/{igsn} (Get metadata of a sample)POST /metadata/ (Get metadata of samples)DELETE /metadata/{igsn} (Mark a sample metadata as ‘deprecated’)

*Sample registration requests must be specified based on the CSIRO-IGSN Description Schema: https://igsn.csiro.au/schemas

https://igsn.csiro.au/schemas

https://igsn.csiro.au/schemas


Australian IGSN Portal

• A grant from the NCRIS Research Data Services programme made it possible to develop a demonstrator for a common Australia Geo Sample Portal.

• Metadata are harvested into a common metadata portal to facilitate the discovery of samples curated by Australian IGSN members.

• Samples are described in a common metadata schema.

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Linking Samples with Data and Publications

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Specimen (IGSN) Spectrum (DOI)

cross-reference

Publication (DOI)

cross-reference


Conclusions

• Resources• General info: http://www.igsn.org• Technical info: http://igsn.github.io• Demo portal: http://igsn2.csiro.au

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http://www.igsn.org/

http://igsn.github.io/

http://igsn2.csiro.au/

Mineral ResourcesJens KlumpScience Leader Earth Science Informaticst +61 8 6436 8828e [email protected] www.csiro.au/en/Research/MRF

Mineral ResourcesAnusuriya DevarajuPostdoctoral Fellowe [email protected]

Mineral ResourcesPavel GolodoniucResearch Projects Officere [email protected]

Land & WaterSimon CoxChief Research Scientiste [email protected]

Australian National University/NCILesley WybornAdjunct Fellowe [email protected]

Geoscience AustraliaIrina BastrakovaSenior Data Strategiste [email protected]

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