Management and curation of rock samples in a geochronology lab: Linking physical samples to data,John de Lateter Centre Digital Mineral Library Project

Talk presented to eResearch Australasia 2016, Wednesday 12 October 2016 entitled "Management and curation of rock samples in a Geochronology Lab: Linking physical samples to data, John de Laeter (JdLC) Digital Mineral Library Project". The talk reports on research projects at the JdLC, Curtin University, Western Australia to develop a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) to capture, store, manage and share geochemical analyses related to geochronology using two of the instruments housed at the (TIMA - a type of SEM-EDA used to determine the mineral composition of rock samples and a SHRIMP - a secondary ion mass spectrometer used to measure uranium and lead isotope concentrations in minerals).