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Recommendation

IGSN is used to identify samples in data infrastructures.

For organizations this means:

a person or unit should be made responsible to maintain the centres IGSNs.

For data curators this means:

Enable, train and encourage staff to register IGSN when samples are taken.
Enable, train and encourage staff to record any parent IGSNs with subsamples.

For researchers it means:

Record an IGSN with any sample taken.
Record the parent IGSN with any subsample measured

For data infrastructures:

record a IGSN to identify samples and parent samples and make this data part of the metadata available for harvesting.
treat IGSN metadata as the primary source of truth and update your own metadata accordingly.

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[Format: Wer! macht was! wo! wann! unter welchen Voraussetzungen!]

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	mandatory	conditional	optional
Helmholtz FAIR Principle

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Content

[1] Plankytė, Vaida, Macneil, Rory, & Chen, Xiaoli. (2023). Guiding principles for implementing persistent identification and metadata features on research tools to boost interoperability of research data and support sample management workflows. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8284206

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