IGSN is a globally unique and persistent identifier for material samples and specimens. IGSNs are obtained from IGSN e.V. Agents.

Prefix

igsn

Keywords

archaeology biospecimen centrally registered identifier earth science environmental material environmental science geochemistry geology hydrogeology omics

Links

Homepage

Publications

2023 Scaling Identifiers and their Metadata to Gigascale: An Architecture to Tackle the Challenges of Volume and Variety

2021 Towards Globally Unique Identification of Physical Samples: Governance and Technical Implementation of the IGSN Global Sample Number

2017 Utilizing the International Geo Sample Number Concept in Continental Scientific Drilling During ICDP Expedition COSC-1

2021 IGSN 2040 Summary Report: Defining the Future of the IGSN as a Global Persistent Identifier for Material Samples

2025 Archaeological Sample Metadata Profile

2023 International Generic Sample Number

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in International Generic Sample Number should match this regular expression:
^[A-Za-z]{2,4}[A-Za-z0-9.-]{1,71}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

AU124   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from International Generic Sample Number should match this regular expression:
^igsn:[A-Za-z]{2,4}[A-Za-z0-9.-]{1,71}$

Example CURIE

igsn:AU124

Contact

Jens Klump   0000-0001-5911-6022   jklump

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection (1)

PID4NFDI Providers

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 3 mappings to external registries with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier AU124 is used to demonstrate the providers available for International Generic Sample Number. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.