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"Lopez, Francisco (AGDT)" <[log in to unmask]>
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:27:17 +0100
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Dear all,
            I think that there is a wide agreement on the fact that the DWC germplasm extension combined with the DOIs will help a lot the functions we listed this week for the Global Information System.

The discussion during the last days has evolved very quickly and focused on a number of minimum fields to be registered with the DOIs, taking into account the principle of minimum effort, particularly on the side of the data curator, indicated by Axel.   

There is also wide agreement to use the existing fields included in the MCPD (and in the DWC extension) and, from those, to select a mandatory shorter list to be registered with the DOIs, so GLIS can add value to the existing data sets (identify potential duplicates, connect similar material from different databases, automatically discover information associated with the same germplasm in different locations,  etc.)

So far, there also wide agreement on INSTCODE and ACCENUMB.  You all referred to them,  including Adriana, Marco and Dag.  Additionally, other descriptors like OTHERNUMB should be included as mandatory for the identification of potential duplicates as explained by Stephan and also GENUS and  CROP for other basic functions of the system.

We should also encourage re-use of existing vocabularies thus promoting interoperability and the GLIS can benefit from ongoing work in TDWG and elsewhere, highlighted by Dag, Éamonn and others, to provide a solid foundation to biodiversity informatics through ontology development and I have also noted the suggestions made by Ramona  regarding the Planteome project, which looks quite interesting.

Thank you.
Regards,
Francisco

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