EURISCO as a tool EURISCO as a tool to assist in gap analysis to assist in gap analysis of of ex situ ex situ European CWR European CWR Sónia Dias Presented at the PGRForum Workshop 2: Threat and Conservation Assessment 27-30 April 2005 Korsör, Denmark
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EURISCO as a tool EURISCO as a tool to assist in gap analysis of to assist in gap analysis of ex ex
situsitu European CWR European CWR
Sónia Dias
Presented at the PGRForum
Workshop 2: Threat and Conservation Assessment27-30 April 2005Korsör, Denmark
1.Background and objective
2.EURISCO, What it is and what it does
3.EURISCO for CWR
4.Gap analysis with EURISCO
5.5. Reasons Reasons for collectingfor collecting
6.Prospects
OverviewOverview
1. Background1. Background
• The EPGRIS project was approved under 5th Framework
programme, thematic Program “Quality Of Life And Management Of
Living Resources.
• The project aimed at establishing an infrastructure for information
on plant genetic resources (PGR) maintained ex situ in Europe.
• This European Inventory is called EURISCO, which stands for
European Internet Search Catalogue, and in ancient Greek means
"I find".
• EURISCO was an end product from the EPGRIS project.
• EURISCO Catalogue is maintained by IPGRI on behalf of ECP/GR.
The objective of EURISCO is toThe objective of EURISCO is to
Support the creation and providing technical support to National PGR Inventories
Develop an European PGR Search Catalogue with passport data on ex situ collections maintained in Europe by:
having the possibility to frequently update the catalogue from the National PGR Inventories
encouraging easy accessibility via the Internet
providing access to all ex situ PGR information in Europe thus facilitate locating and accessing PGR.
•EURISCO = European Search Catalogue
•First regional catalogue of PGR
•Contains passport information on over 911,000 accessions
•Provides access to information on PGR maintained in Europe
•Facilitates locating germplasm material
•Facilitates the access to germplasm material
•Updated through the National Inventories (NI)
•These data comes from 27 PGR Inventories, covering 31
European countries.
2. What it is and what it does
RolesRoles
1. Responsible of data sources & merges2. Ensure data quality & accuracy 3. Decide on data availability 4. Commit to provide data in the
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1. Responsible of data checking of NI 2. Provide feedback to National Partners 3. Import NI data in EURISCO4. Develop and maintain front endC
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Data format (for the time being tab delimited)Essential descriptors
NICODEINSTCODEACCENUMB GENUS
Line per Line checkingUploading report generatedData provider contacted for approval….
National Inventory Holding Institute Genus, SpeciesGenus, Species, Sub-species Country sourceCountry source Sample statusSample status Collecting source Acquisition date Latitude and longitudeLatitude and longitude ElevationElevation Accession numbersAccession numbers Accession names Other number Breeding Institute Collecting Institute Donor Institute Safety duplication Institute Passport data Geographical distribution of accessionsGeographical distribution of accessions
What can be searched?What can be searched?
EURISCO descriptor list EURISCO descriptor list is an extension of the is an extension of the FAO/IPGRI Multi Crop FAO/IPGRI Multi Crop Passport Descriptor List Passport Descriptor List version 2 (December version 2 (December 2001)2001)