Prof Brent McInnes - Curtin university. IGSN in the Analytical Environment: Progress, issues and prospects, John de Laeter Centre, Curtin University. 2 Nov 2016, Canberra. International Geo-sample Number Symposium

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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?

6. 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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200 mineral data sets publicly available,
plan to double in size by end of 2017
Digital Mineral Library Project
• 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 analyser
mount
(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 beam
focussed 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
25 August 2015: CSIRO calls on researchers worldwide to join forces to save honey bees
Impinj Monza® 5 UHF RFID tag
Dimensions: 2.5 x 2.5 mm, weight 5.4 mg
EPC memory: Up to 128 bits, User memory: 32 bits TID memory: 48 bits
EPCglobal 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.