Last week, the iSamples RCN hosted a breakout session entitled "Standards and Best practices for Samples and Sample-based Data" at the 2019 EarthCube All-Hands Meeting in Denver, CO. Presentations and notes from the session can be found here bit.ly/31FQsiE

Excited to have ⁦Helen Glaves⁩ speak about #ENVRIFAIR, ⁦IGSN⁩ as well as work being done in ⁦European Geosciences Union⁩ on open and #FAIRdata - much credit to ⁦Copernicus EU⁩ on their support!! ⁦AGU (American Geophysical Union)⁩

Please join us for the “Vive les Samples! Geosample data management and visualization for the discerning geochemist” workshop at the Goldschmidt conference on August 18th from 8:30 am-12:30 pm. Registration is available at goldschmidt.info/2019/eventType…

Using IGSNs can help reduce the number of flights taken/reduce carbon emissions. “I also make use of previously collected data, and arrange for people to collect samples for me during planned trips, instead of travelling myself.” Kjellman (2019) nature doi.org/10.1038/d41586…

Adam Mansur’s keynote at #ESIP2019 highlighted how #IGSN is used by the Smithsonian NMNH. Live stream link sched.co/MKFy.

Rescuing 50 Years of Apollo Sample Data. Read about EarthChem's work on MoonDB and AstroMat. blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2019/07/18/res…

50 years after Apollo, we have not got a proper chemical database for the Moon. Thrilled Kerstin Lehnert & her LDEO team are building the AstroMat database. This will be a massive help to scientists like me & will help safeguard vital lunar data. blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2019/07/18/res…

“That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Landing on the moon was a big deal, especially for science. We chatted w/ Ryan Zeigler of NASA about the moon rocks collected from the Apollo missions ow.ly/QlK650v0OC2 AGU (American Geophysical Union) #SciComm #podcast #AGU100

The room is packed for the breakout session on Physical Samples and Collections in the Research Data Ecosystem Kerstin Lehnert Lesley Wyborn #RDAPlenary

Yesterday we had a local meeting of IGSN, PID of physical samples/specimen for sci. research, welcoming IGSN key experts overseas Kerstin Lehnert & Jens Klump to JAMSTEC 海洋研究開発機構 ＼海と地球の研究所／, Yokohama (missed photo!). Thx @SeanToczko, Tomiyama-san, Lallan & JAMSTEC colleagues.

‘We call on researchers, museums, funders, scientific societies & journals to ensure that all samples … from which geochemical data have been produced & published are curated, archived & made available to members of the research community’ nature.com/articles/d4158… #IGSN

#Jobposting! Research staff assistant at Columbia University's LDEO working with the EarthChem and @AstromatData team! opportunities.columbia.edu/en-us/job/5088… Kerstin Lehnert Lucia Profeta @jennlmays 4D Initiative Carnegie Earth & Planets Laboratory Carnegie Science Deep Carbon Obsrvtry Peter Fox Marshall X Ma NASA U.S. National Science Foundation

#PIDapalooza21 Join this session with Laurel Haak (she/they), Kerstin Lehnert and Sarah Ramdeen to get a taste of the strategic planning process, learn more about IGSN priorities and plans, and contribute your ideas to IGSN’s growing up and into its next stage! sched.co/gCzt

Check out our presentation on the future of the IGSN e.V. from this years PIDapalooza youtu.be/CrAfsJTdHCk See Figshare for the slides doi.org/10.6084/m9.fig… #PIDapalooza21

Check out this new article with a pilot test of IGSN by Earth & Environmental Systems Science Data Hub "Sample Identifiers and Metadata to Support Data Management and Reuse in Multidisciplinary Ecosystem Sciences" doi.org/10.5334/dsj-20…

IGSN & DataCite (inactive Mar 2025) are pleased to announce their roadmap towards a partnership that intends to support the global adoption, implementation & use of physical sample identifiers. In their blog post Kerstin Lehnert & Matthew Buys share the goal of the partnership: doi.org/10.5438/thhf-k…

On Thursday, Oct 21, there will be talks the virtual #scidatacon21 discussing the #OneGeochemistry Initiative to create a global network of FAIR geochemical data. Pre-register here for the session here: scidatacon.org/virtual-2021/s… #geochemistry #geology

Identifiers are more than just labels on rocks. They are anchors of the scholarly record into reality. Towards Globally Unique Identification of Physical Samples: Governance and Technical Implementation of the IGSN Global Sample Number. doi.org/10.5334/dsj-20… #samples #PIDS

Missed out on last year's Discovering Samples Archives webinar? Check out the recordings on the ICCROM website iccrom.org/news/discoveri…. Our own Kerstin Lehnert provided a keynote presentation on the application of FAIR data principles to natural history and cultural heritage samples.

The IGSN ID is now called the International Generic Sample Number to reflect its expanding scope and utilization. See the official announcement at igsn.org/about/.