digital object identifiers (dois) in the context of the international treaty
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Francisco Lopez
Treaty Support Officer
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources
for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), FAO
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) in the context of the International Treaty
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) in the context of the International Treaty
The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture objectives are conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources
Global Operations related to the transfer of PGRFA material within a Multilateral System of Access and Benefit Sharing
Article 17 on the Global Information System on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
Standards and work on Permanent Unique Identifiers in the first Programme of Work
Current Situation Overview: More than 1750 plant genebanks worldwide
with more than 7,4 million accessions The material is exchanged every day worldwide The material is provided, in most cases, without the
additional non-confidential information (eg. genotypic and phenotypic information)
The recipients of the material usually change the ID after the transfer
There is duplicated material There are no automated mechanisms to discover where the
material is Not much added value is incorporated to the material
Identifiers Are Like Glue Linking PGRFA data stored in a constellation of
systems
Linking phenotypic, genotypic and geographic data with PGRFA Multi-Crop passport information
Permanent Unique Identifiers (PUIs) are a necessary step towards integration
We also need rules for their assignation to
be applied by a community
Technical solutions and protocols
Key Feature of PUIDs be unique, i.e. unambiguously identify a specific object or
intellectual asset; be permanent, i.e. always valid: the same object will be
forever associated to the same identifier; be opaque, i.e. nothing about the associated object should
be inferable by the structure of the identifier; be actionable, i.e. a defined procedure for name resolution
exists to access the information associated to the object once the identifier is known.
be discoverable, i.e. given details of an object, it is possible to retrieve its identifier.
Relations between objects can be modelled
Several Top Candidates Evaluated Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) and Persistent
Uniform Resource Locators (PURLs)
Digital Object Identifier (DOIs) [Best for PGRFA]
Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs)
Universally Unique Identifiers (UUID)
Archival Resource Keys (ARK)
What does a DOI look like? 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003477
10.1111/1467-9388.00298
10.1038/nrg1729
How do we resolve a DOI?
http://dx.doi.org/{DOI name}
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg1729
DOIs for the PGRFA Community Global Survey on metadata descriptors associated to
DOIs to define the minimum set of PGRFA metadata -Core fields
Subsequent research focus group
Guidelines for users
FAO becomes an intermediary to offer free-of-charge DOI registration services for the PGRFA community
Pilot phase with projects in the field with consolidated crop communities
Core fields for PGRFA
Location
Identifier
Date
Method
Name
Example: Location can be the FAO Wiewscode used for Genebanks, the GrBio code, the GEO coordinates, the name of the institution holding the material, the name of the individual holding the material
They work ontologies and targets