Q: What is meant by pollution set?
Ref: I would personally immediately make pollution sets so they can be aged in situ
Your latest innovation in nomenclature ( in this case ? ): "A forensically traceable volume of polluted earth managed for experimental assays, experimentation, and remediation".
The feedstock itself should be handled similarly if it's extracted or made to order. Both those tracks have different Background document trails.
My observation on such things is newcomers to traceability become infatuated with time stamps. Uniqueness in controls is more important than when it first encountered some human mind. I like old fashioned barcodes really, but machine readability is not really the essential issue. However systems like this must be machine readable, of course. You will invariably pick QR codes for new work in 2023. Probably the best is if the enum can be a string in a URL:
23-1006-a
etc
Also, you obviously need a lexicon of controlled vocabulary.
Maybe a year code + UUID + pkg code is ok. A system likely to work until year 3000 seems ok for me, for instance !
A so called "Smart" versus "dumb" number is old world stuff. a number can be slightly smart, like 2 digits for year, and 'a' for sample form factor; ( size and containment ). Numbers should be 'just a little smart'.
In case you do double blind tests with lab made versus from the wild samples, I suggest the enum conceal the sources specifically. That is a background idea.
There is generally always a bedrock idea in a work like this. "Make anything that works enough we get paid, somehow", is not really a honorable system. Its easily the #1 system in any project, however.
{ sample Start-of-eval } ===> { process p1, p2, pn } ===> { Eval } ===> { Return to the wild }
Each enumerated is an obvious linear baseline.
Do you think you will be handling a large number of samples, generally or endlessly fuss over singular ones for hours each ?
Normalised to a labour year of 2000 Hrs hands on labor, how many in a calendar year, max ?
I don't particularly feel enabled by my own preexisting knowledge of biotech for pollution abatement to comment on the microbe munching cycle, specifically. Since human beings do absolutely nothing; (except a bit of midnight concealment, lying and blaming ), there is no surprise hidden pollution problems are astonishingly severe. I almost assume there easier to remedy significantly then prove any act is working. Look at Deinococcus radiodurans !
The only reason pollution abatement is not achieved is because no institution worth a rats ass is actually trying. It is not necessarily easy, but is also not very difficult. But of course, any rational approach segregates your project(s) to a subset of kinds of contamination. So, again a lexicon of terms matters, as does proving what you have in the little container before and after you do whatever you do.
Regs,
Daniel B. Kolis