 The project was initiated and managed by the Geoinformatics for Geochemistry Program under the direction of Kerstin Lehnert to address data curation obstacles such as different samples that share the same name, and samples that are renamed as they move between laboratories and thus generating analyses that are published under different aliases.As a result, metadata that ensure unique identification are often missing and this causes irritation for future reuse of data from a sample or the sample itself.Sample databases, such as the SESAR database, are designed to address these issues.