# iSamples
Technical Overview - Draft
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~Date:\ 2020-09-08~
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## iSamples Project
- 2020-08-15 -> 2024-08-14
- Design and develop iSamples infrastructure
- Four initial implementations:
- Open Context
- GEOME
- SESAR
- Smithsonian Institution
- Outreach and community engagement on material samples
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### Technical Sketch
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## iSamples Central
- Identifier agnostic
- Resolution services
- Metadata collation and index
- Metadata profiles
- Potentially mirrored instances
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## iSamples In-A-Box
- "Allocating Agent"
- Serves specific community / organization
- Coupled with collection(s)
- Identifier allocation
- Identifier association with existing
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## Initial Implementors
- Open Context
- Archaeology, IGSNs
- Genomic Observatories Metadata Database (GEOME)
- Biodiversity, ARKs
- System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR)
- Geosciences, IGSNs
- Smithsonian
- Biodiversity, ARKs; Geosamples, IGSNs
- USGS
- Geosciences, IGSNs
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