物联网样本(iSamples)：迈向跨学科的材料样本网络基础设施。

Gump South Pacific Research Station, University of California, BP 244, Moorea 98728, French Polynesia.

Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California, 190 Doe Library, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Gigascience. 2021 May 7;10(5). doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giab028.

Sampling the natural world and built environment underpins much of science, yet systems for managing material samples and associated (meta)data are fragmented across institutional catalogs, practices for identification, and discipline-specific (meta)data standards. The Internet of Samples (iSamples) is a standards-based collaboration to uniquely, consistently, and conveniently identify material samples, record core metadata about them, and link them to other samples, data, and research products. iSamples extends existing resources and best practices in data stewardship to render a cross-domain cyberinfrastructure that enables transdisciplinary research, discovery, and reuse of material samples in 21st century natural science.

采样自然世界和人造环境是许多科学研究的基础，但用于管理物质样本及其相关（元）数据的系统在机构目录、识别实践以及特定于学科的（元）数据标准之间是分散的。样本互联网（iSamples）是一个基于标准的合作，旨在对物质样本进行独特、一致和方便的识别，记录它们的核心元数据，并将它们与其他样本、数据和研究产品联系起来。iSamples 扩展了现有的数据管理资源和最佳实践，以提供一个跨领域的网络基础设施，使 21 世纪自然科学领域的物质样本能够进行跨学科研究、发现和再利用。