https://earth-and-environment.helmholtz-metadaten.de/wiki/ 2026-05-16T14:34:54+00:00 https://earth-and-environment.helmholtz-metadaten.de/wiki/ https://earth-and-environment.helmholtz-metadaten.de/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=logo.png text/html 2026-03-30T13:55:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://earth-and-environment.helmholtz-metadaten.de/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:2_fair-building-blocks:0_pid:3_igsn:m-3-1&rev=1774878901&do=diff Recommendation 4.1 Organizations Recommendation to Organizations to support IGSN deployment Description Status: Draft 22.5.2025 Motivation for this Recommendation: Registering IGSNs benefits organizations by ensuring that physical samples are uniquely identifiable, traceable, and citable, which improves data quality, provenance, and reproducibility. It supports FAIR data practices by linking samples to related datasets, publications, and instruments, enhancing visibility and reuse. Organi… text/html 2026-03-30T13:55:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://earth-and-environment.helmholtz-metadaten.de/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:2_fair-building-blocks:0_pid:3_igsn:m-3-2&rev=1774878901&do=diff Recommendation 4.2 Sample Curators Recommendation to Sample curators to train staff in handling IGSN Description Status: Motivation for this Recommendation: Sample curators are well-positioned to take a leading role in promoting the use of IGSNs, as they possess the expertise and oversight necessary to ensure high-quality sample documentation. By actively encouraging and training researchers, technicians, and other staff to register IGSNs and record sample relationships, curators help es… text/html 2026-03-30T13:55:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://earth-and-environment.helmholtz-metadaten.de/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:2_fair-building-blocks:0_pid:3_igsn:m-3-3&rev=1774878901&do=diff Recommendation 4.3 Researchers Recommendation to researchers to record IGSNs when taking samples Description Status: 23.5.2025 Motivation for this Recommendation: Researchers, technicians, and others who take or handle samples are best positioned to record IGSNs because they are directly involved in the sampling process and have immediate access to critical contextual information. By recording IGSNs at the time of sampling—and documenting parent IGSNs when creating subsamples—they help ens… text/html 2026-03-30T13:55:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://earth-and-environment.helmholtz-metadaten.de/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:2_fair-building-blocks:0_pid:3_igsn:m-3-4&rev=1774878901&do=diff Recommendation 4.4 Data Infrastructures Recommendation to data infrastructures to allow to assign IGSNs to data records Description Status: 23.5.2025 Motivation for this Recommendation: Integrating IGSNs into data infrastructures enhances the quality, consistency, and interoperability of sample metadata. When systems support the capture and exposure of IGSNs—along with parent-child sample relationships—sample-based data becomes more discoverable, reusable, and reliably linked to other rese… text/html 2026-03-30T13:55:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://earth-and-environment.helmholtz-metadaten.de/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:2_fair-building-blocks:0_pid:3_igsn:start&rev=1774878901&do=diff Recommendation 4.0 Use IGSN for Samples Recommendation to use IGSN as the standard reference in technical infrastructures to samples where appropriate Summary Description Status: V1.0 28.5.2025 Motivation for this Recommendation: The International Generic Sample Number (IGSN) is a globally unique and persistent identifier designed specifically for physical samples and related objects. At Helmholtz, we recommend the use of IGSNs to ensure that samples—and other tangible sources from which…