Dr. Jens Klump1, Dr. Kerstin Lehnert2, Dr. Rorie Edmunds3, Dr. Lesley Wyborn4
1CSIRO, Perth, Australia, 2Columbia University, Palisades, United States, 3DataCite, Shinjuku, Japan, 4Australian Research Data Commons, Canberra, Australia
Biography:
Jens Klump is a Research Scientist at CSIRO in Perth, working with data in exploration for mineral resources. His work covers the entire chain of data logistics, from data capture in the field to analysis and publication. He has many years of experience implementing persistent identifier systems in the research ecosystem. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5911-6022
Kerstin Lehnert is Director of the Geoinformatics Research Group at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, USA. She has been developing and operating data systems for physical samples and laboratory analyses of samples for >2 decades, including the IGSN, the System for Earth Sample Registration SESAR, EarthChem, and the Astromaterials Data System. She is currently also lead-PI for the Internet of Samples (iSamples). https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7036-1977
Rorie Edmunds leads the partnership between DataCite and IGSN e.V. He is responsible for driving the adoption of PIDs for physical samples, advocacy activities to scale samples community engagement, and the development of sample PID practice standards. Based in Tokyo, Rorie has 12 years of experience coordinating international initiatives and scaling communities globally. Before joining DataCite, he was Executive Director of ISC’s World Data System and Head of Secretariat of CoreTrustSeal. Rorie’s research background is highly multidisciplinary. His first degree was in Mathematics, and he holds a Ph.D. in Structural Geology.
Lesley Wyborn is an Honorary Professor at ANU at the NCI, and at the Research School of Earth Sciences. She also works part-time for ARDC as a Data Strategist. She had 42 years of experience in Geoscience Australia (GA) in geochemistry research and data science. Since leaving GA in 2014, she has continued her research in Data Science as applied to geochemistry, geophysics, sample identifiers, versioning of datasets, and data quality. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5976-4943
Abstract:
Persistent unique identifiers (PIDs) are a critical element of the research ecosystem. They unambiguously identify and cite digital representations of many entities, including physical samples, publications, data, instruments, researchers, organisations, funding awards, field programs, and others: they also enable unequivocal connections between them to be explicitly expressed. Physical samples are tightly coupled to the communities of practice working with them, their physical nature gives rise to unique challenges in applying the FAIR and CARE Guidance Principles to samples and any datasets derived from them.
The aim of this BoF is to go beyond identifiers per se and encompass themes of discovery, access, reproducibility, and the support of a global, multidisciplinary specimen ecosystem. This BoF will introduce and discuss the services, tools, projects, and community efforts that involve making physical specimens FAIR and CARE-compliant and as Open as possible.
Panellists will include representatives from specimen-related projects, representatives from the various domains working with physical specimens, such as geology, archeology, and biodiversity, and representatives from digital research infrastructures. The goal of the session is to 1) determine the level of interest in forming more discipline/topic-specific communities of practice and 2) share best practices in linking samples to derived datasets.