ECPGR

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ECP/GR Documentation and Information Network -
EPGRIS and other elements in this network -
Frank Begemann
German Centre for Documentation and Information
In Agriculture (ZADI) Information Centre for
Biological Diversity (IBV) Bonn, Germany
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European Cooperative Programme (ECP/GR)
Steering Committee
Coordinating Secretariat
Cereals Network
Forages Network
Vegetables Network
Grain Legumes Network
Fruit Network
Minor crops Network
Industrial crops and potato Network
Documentation and Information Network
In situ and on farm conservation Network
Technical cooperation Network
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Documentation and Information Network
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Documentation and Information Network

• Objectives
• to support the other ECP/GR networks by
  providing
• advice and services in ICT-related issues and

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Documentation and Information Network

• Objectives
• to support the other ECP/GR networks by
  providing
• advice and services in ICT-related issues and
• to provide a forum for discussion,
  decision-making
• and promotion of training activities and project
• proposals.

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Documentation and Information Network
Relevant data

• Ex-situ-Collections

• Passport data
• Characterization data
• Evaluation data

• In-situ-occurrence (incl. on farm.)

• cultivated plants in
• agriculture, horticulture, fruit growing,
  viticulture
• wild relatives of cultivated plants

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Documentation and Information Network
Information elements (selection)

• offline
• European Central Crop Databases (ECCDB)
• providing users with information on the
  germplasm in Europe,
• providing the Working Groups with a tool
  allowing them
• to take informed decisions and make
  recommendations
• regarding the management of national collections,
  
• such as priority setting, rationalization and
  safety-duplication.
• publications

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Documentation and Information Network
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Documentation and Information Network

• Information Elements (selection)
• online products (increasing importance)

• ECP/GR website
• National Inventories
• focus on passport data
• European Search Catalogue (EURISCO)
• focus on a subset of National Inventories data
• European Central Crop Databases (ECCDB)
• in future focus on characterization and
  evaluation data

• data exchange format
• IPGRI/FAO Multicrop Passport Descriptors

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Documentation and Information Network

• Network-Structure
• Internet Advisory Group
• experts from CGN, IPGRI, NGB, ZADI

• Documentation Support Centres
• offers from CGN, NGB, ZADI, IPGRI

• National Inventory Focal Points
• all ECP/GR member states

• Central Crop Database Managers
• most ECP/GR mandate crops

• Listserver (in-kind contribution of NGB)

• Projects
• EPGRIS
• EPGRIS Partners BRG, CGN, INIA, IPGRI, NGB,
  RICP, ZADI
• PGR FORUM (project of in situ network but
  related to this one)

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Documentation and Information Network

• focus on passport data
• specific interest for questions like where to
  find an accession

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Documentation and Information Network
European Central Crop Databases (ECCDB)
in future focus on characterization and
evaluation data specific interest for breeders
research
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Documentation and Information Network
Thank you for your attention!
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