Making FAIR data for specimens accessible

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Group 3 questions: Improving engagement of participants
(12) How could the experience of users (e.g., of portals, search, etc.) be improved and their lives made easier?

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Analyzing/mining specimen data for novel applications

How do the extended/digital specimen (ES/DS) concepts help to address making specimen data widely usable for novel applications? If we are trying to build a system of very interconnected data, then I would like to see some mechanism to search across ES/DS data using graph style queries, ie emphasising and properly utilising the links between records as much as attributes on the records themselves.