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The labels are created using the FOP software, written in Java.

Managing samples is good. Making them known is better!

If the software makes it possible to manually create samples or containers, the operation is often tedious and time consuming. To simplify the work, two import mechanisms are available.

Metadata is the set of contextual data associated with the sample when it is collected in the field or created in the laboratory. They make it possible to provide information specific to each protocol and describing the production context of the sample, such as the situation in the sampling plan (border or interior of agricultural parcel, plot number, type of taxon harvested, height and depth sediment core, sample location sampled from a core, type of drill substrate, trap type, etc.). They are strongly linked to the nature of the samples collected, and in view of the diversity of the data collected, cannot be defined in advance during the design of the software. This involves providing a mechanism that dynamically creates their schema.

It is possible to track the loan of samples to third party laboratories, with a dedicated function. The loan can concern either a single sample or a set of samples, for example a box of tubes.