wrapping up the year; ARKs for physical samples

[John Kunze]

With a record 113 new institutions registered in 2020, it's been a great year for ARKs. And below is some news about ARKs for physical samples. 

Happy Holidays!

-John

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‘Internet of Samples’ to use ARKs and IGSNs with physical objects
December 22, 2020

In August 2020, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and partner institutions $4 million to develop an innovative cyberinfrastructure that will integrate scientific samples into a digital data ecosystem: iSamples, the ‘Internet of Samples.’

Partner institutions include the University of Arizona, University of Kansas, University of California at Berkeley, Open Context (a data system for archaeology), the Smithsonian Institution, and the California Digital Library (CDL). The iSamples ecosystem will support different kinds of persistent identifier, including ARKs and IGSNs for physical objects. CDL’s N2T and EZID systems will provide ARK identifiers for a number of partner collections.

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