Session 3L | The IsoBank Project

In this presentation we will describe IsoBank, a project to design and build a common repository for stable isotope data. We will present the vision for IsoBank, as well as the conceptual model driving the development of this custom repository system. As a general repository for stable isotope data, IsoBank must serve a wide array of disciplinary communities, and support data sampled from an even wider array of sources, from environmental samples to museum specimens, with descriptive metadata supporting both findability and reusability. We will discuss the process of gathering input from a community of researchers in various disciplines, and the development of a system to capture descriptive metadata via modifiable templates.