Explore the Internet of Samples: iSamples

Each image links to its record at the source repository. Two of these are also in the iSamples collection and open directly in our globe — the fossil coral and the askoi — with the coral flying to the Cayman Islands and the askoi to Murlo, Italy. The diamond and the fish live at their home repositories for now; they’ll join the iSamples collection in a future data update.

The Internet of Samples (iSamples) is a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional project funded by the National Science Foundation to design, develop, and promote service infrastructure to uniquely, consistently, and conveniently identify material samples, record metadata about them, and persistently link them to other samples and derived digital content, including images, data, and publications.