Welcome to SESAR documentation

Documentation for registering, managing, and finding samples with SESAR.

SESAR is a community platform for managing and archiving metadata about scientific material samples, and for finding information about samples around the world.

This site contains documentation and guidelines describing: how to register samples, what every metadata field means, which terms are allowed in which field, and how to do all of it programmatically.

This site is under construction as we improve and expand our guides and documentation. Please check back regularly or contact us with suggestions and questions by emailing us at [e-mail].

For who we are, how we're funded, and what we're for, see geosamples.org.

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Section	What's in it
User Guide	Register, manage, and cite your samples.
Metadata Schema	Every field, what it means, what's required.
Vocabularies	Controlled term lists, and how to request additions.
API	Register and retrieve metadata programmatically.

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