Find your path

Where to go depending on what you're trying to do.

I collect samples or manage a sample collection

You want the User Guide. Start with Create a SESAR account.

I run a lab group

Same section, but the setup order matters and getting it wrong means redoing it. Start with Share a code with your lab group.

I manage a collection, repository, or museum

[COMING SOON] You want For Institutions & Repositories — different scale, different onboarding, and possibly a different registration route.

I'm building software that talks to SESAR

You want the API section, and probably the Metadata Schema alongside it.

I need to know what goes in a field

Metadata Schema for what each field means and whether it's required, and Vocabularies describing which values are allowed.

I'm mapping SESAR to another standard

[COMING SOON] Metadata Schema → Crosswalks covers DataCite, Darwin Core, and iSamples.

I'm looking for samples, not registering them

Try the SESAR Catalog or the Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples.

I want to know what SESAR is

That's on geosamples.org rather than here.