RE: paleonet FW: SESAR: Solid Earth Sample Registry

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Thanks Meor!  That certainly is an unfortunate choice of terms for
Malaysians or others who speak Malay.  However, I don't think that this will
limit usage of the term, since it is an acronym (SESAR, Solid Earth SAmple
Registry) and the number will be referred to as an IGSN (International
Geological Sample Number) paralleling the ISBN number used for books.  I
would guess that just about any term chosen will have an inappropriate
meaning in one of the many languages around the world.  Many thanks for
calling this to our attention!

rich Lane

-----Original Message-----
From: meor hakif [mailto:hakif23@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 11:03 PM
To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Re: paleonet FW: SESAR: Solid Earth Sample Registry


Just a note of possible interest,coincidentally
'sesar' in malay means 'fault' in the geological sense
cheers
meor
--- "Lane, Harold" <hlane@nsf.gov> wrote:

>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kerstin Lehnert
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> Cc: Sri Vinayagamoorthy; Steven L Goldstein;
> Christopher Lenhardt; Dave Epp;
> Richard Lane
> Subject: SESAR: Solid Earth Sample Registry
> 
> 
> 
> SESAR, the Solid Earth Sample Registry, is an
> NSF-funded project started
> Sept 1, 2004, as a response to the urgent need for
> unique sample identifiers
> in the development of a Geoscience
> Cyberinfrastructure. 
> 
> 
> SESAR is building a web-based digital registry for
> solid earth samples that
> will provide for the first time a way to uniquely
> name and identify samples
> on a global scale by means of the International Geo
> Sample Number IGSN.
> Establishing SESAR and the IGSN will have a
> wide-ranging impact on sample
> and data management, especially with respect to
> sample sharing and data
> integration, addressing a basic requirement for
> interoperability among
> information systems for sample-based data. 
> 
> 
> To find out more about SESAR, visit 
> 
> 
> www.geosamples.org 
> 
> 
> 
> or come to one of the following SESAR presentations
> at the upcoming AGU Fall
> Meeting in San Francisco: 
> 
> 
> -       Session SF32A, Wednesday, Dec 15, 2004,
> 12:00pm, Moscone West, Room
> 3010: "SESAR: Addressing the need for unique sample
> identification in the
> Solid Earth Sciences" (Lehnert, K., Goldstein, S.L.,
> Lenhardt, W.C.,
> Vinayagamoorthy, S.) 
> 
> 
> -       Town Hall Meeting "The MARGINS Database: Its
> Part in the Marine
> Geosciences Data Management System and Benefits of
> Integrated Data Access
> and Visualization for Researchers and Educators",
> Thursday, Dec 16, 6:30pm,
> Moscone West, Room 3006 
> 
> 
> -       Tuesday, Dec 15, to Friday, Dec 17, all day
> at the EarthChem booth
> in the exhibit hall (booth #231 within the "NSF
> Community", next to CHRONOS
> and NSF-OPP). 
> 
> 
> 
> Please forward this message to any colleagues who
> might be interested in
> this project, and feel free to contact any of us if
> you have further
> questions and comments. We welcome your input. You
> can also register as a
> user at the SESAR web site (www.geosamples.org) to
> receive regular updates
> on the project. 
> 
> 
> 
> With best wishes for a peaceful Holiday Season, 
> 
> The SESAR Team 
> 
> 
> Kerstin Lehnert (lehnert@ldeo.columbia.edu) 
> 
> Steve Goldstein (steveg@ldeo.columbia.edu) 
> 
> Christopher Lenhardt (clenhardt@ciesin.columbia.edu)
> 
> 
> Sri Vinayagamoorthy (sri@ciesin.columbia.edu) 
> 
> 
> 
> Dr. Kerstin Lehnert 
> 
> Coordinator for Research Administration 
> 
> Office of the Director 
> 
> Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia
> University 
> 
> 61 Route 9W 
> 
> Palisades, NY 10964 
> 
> USA 
> 
> 
> Phone: 845-365-8506 
> 
> Fax: 845-365-8162
> 
> 


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