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Brent McInnes, Warick Brown, Adam Brown, Matthias Liffers, Kelly Merigot, Cristina Talavera

IGSN in the Analytical Environment: Progress, Issues and Prospects JdLC Digital Mineral Library Project

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Geochemical Data: Trends and Issues

Analytical innovation is producing multi-dimensional data sets at higher velocities and in greater volumes (high-value spatial data)

Institutions are taking a greater interest in centralised custodianship of research data. Data management via flash drive is not best practice (Research Office, ICT, Libraries)

Australian Research Council grant applications require data management, storage, access and re-use plans (descriptive now, prescriptive later)

Structural transition from scholarly metrics based on citing of publications to citing of publications and/or data (DataCite.org)

Publish or Perish in academia, but publications do not guarantee data discoverability (estimated that only 15-30% of data gets published)

Social-cultural and operational issues around data sharing.

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A Vision of the Future

A digital information network for publicly funded institutions linking researchers, physical samples, sample metadata, laboratory metadata, analytical data and

consumers.

15.12.2015Digital Mineral Library Project

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Researcher A researcher may store their analytical

data on portable storage device or PC. No machine metadata recorded.

Laboratory A research lab may store data from

many users on lab or institutional fileserver. No sample metadata recorded.

Research Laboratory Practices - Status Quo

?

But what about the consumer?

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John de Laeter Centre

IGSN in the analytical laboratory - Issues?

Mineral Library Prototype - System Architecture

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Progress in using IGSN in the laboratory: Linking physical samples to analytical data

TIMA mineral analyser

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Research Data Australia metadata repository

IGSN

URI with IGSN

URI with IGSN

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Digital Mineral Library Project 200 mineral data sets publicly available, plan to double in size by end of 2017

• New datasets available and accessible for free:

• AuScope• Research Data Australia• Curtin Data Store

• Already being utilised by GSWA, industry and academia for MRIWA-sponsored projects

• New research infrastructure capable of being deployed and utilised by any research institution

AuScope Discovery Portal

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15.12.2015The Digital Mineral Library at Curtin University

AuScope Discovery Portal

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John de Laeter Centre

IGSN in the analytical laboratory - Issues?

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Difference between mineral and rock mounts require a change in labelling method

10 mm

TIMA mineral analysermount

(mineral grains)

SHRIMP mass spectrometer mount

(zircon grains)

SHRIMP mount(multiple samples)

SHRIMP mount(multiple samples)

SHRIMP mount(multiple plug samples)

SHRIMP mount(multiple plug samples)

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RF-ID Tags in SHRIMP mounts

25 mm

Oxygen ion beamfocussed on top surface

SHRIMP operator needs to see through mount to Navigate around the grains

• Zircon grains extracted from rock • U-Pb isotope concentrations measured with SHRIMP mass spectrometer

zircon grains

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RF-ID tags for a SHRIMP mount should be small

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Impinj Monza® 5 UHF RFID tag Dimensions: 2.5 x 2.5 mm, weight 5.4 mgEPC memory: Up to 128 bits, User memory: 32 bits TID memory: 48 bitsEPCglobal and ISO 18000-63 compliant, Gen2V2 compliant.

128 bits sufficient to store ISGN

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Prospects

A digital information network for publicly funded institutions linking researchers, physical samples, sample metadata, laboratory metadata, analytical data and

consumers.

IGSN, like ORC ID, is an important component of a digital information network for Earth Sciences. Labs can readily incorporate both into analytical work flow and data management systems.

Not the remit of analytical laboratories to be IGSN or ORC ID registry portals. We need to make obtaining IGSNs easy, perhaps via a web services portal?

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Thanks to:

ANDS and AuScope, which are supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research

Infrastructure Strategy Program.