The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) calls for the contribution of non confidential information about the Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) to the Global Information System (GLIS) to facilitate access to such information by any party interested. The foundation of GLIS is the accurate identification of the PGRFA to which the information is associated. After extensive research and consultation, DOIs have been selected as the Permanent Unique Identifier of choice for GLIS.
The webinar describes the challenges that the GLIS team of the ITPGRFA has faced as well as the benefits that the GLIS user community will receive by the adoption of DOIs.
GBIF web services for biodiversity data, for USDA GRIN, Washington DC, USA (2...Dag Endresen
Presentation of GBIF and the sharing of biodiversity data with web services. USDA GRIN Beltsville Washington DC, 13th December 2005. GBIF is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility for free and open access to biodiversity data.
FAIRsharing consists of three registries: data standards, databases and data policies. This short talk focuses on the FAIRsharing data policy registry, and how including your institutional, funder, publisher, journal, society, project in FAIRsharing can improve findability and machine readability of your policy
The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) calls for the contribution of non confidential information about the Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) to the Global Information System (GLIS) to facilitate access to such information by any party interested. The foundation of GLIS is the accurate identification of the PGRFA to which the information is associated. After extensive research and consultation, DOIs have been selected as the Permanent Unique Identifier of choice for GLIS.
The webinar describes the challenges that the GLIS team of the ITPGRFA has faced as well as the benefits that the GLIS user community will receive by the adoption of DOIs.
GBIF web services for biodiversity data, for USDA GRIN, Washington DC, USA (2...Dag Endresen
Presentation of GBIF and the sharing of biodiversity data with web services. USDA GRIN Beltsville Washington DC, 13th December 2005. GBIF is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility for free and open access to biodiversity data.
FAIRsharing consists of three registries: data standards, databases and data policies. This short talk focuses on the FAIRsharing data policy registry, and how including your institutional, funder, publisher, journal, society, project in FAIRsharing can improve findability and machine readability of your policy
Kathryn Cassidy - What metadata does the Digital Repository of Ireland want, ...dri_ireland
This presentation was given by Kathryn Cassidy, Software Engineer at the Digital Repository of Ireland, at a Digital Preservation Coalition Briefing Day entitled 'Practical Preservation and People: a briefing about metadata'. The Briefing Day was held in the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast on 3 December 2015. The presentation explores the metadata requirements for effective long-term digital preservation in the Digital Repository of Ireland.
AgBioData and FAIRsharing: FAIRsharing: promoting the discovery of data stand...Allyson Lister
Video of this presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNl1oUvWYJE&t=240s
FAIRsharing is an informative and educational resource on interlinked standards, repositories and policies, three key elements of the FAIR ecosystem. FAIRsharing promotes the existence and value of these standards, repositories and policies, fostering a culture change within the research community into one where the use of these resources for FAIRer data is pervasive and seamless. This is achieved by guiding consumers to discover, select and use these resources with confidence, and helping producers to make their resources more visible, more widely adopted and cited. This presentation will highlight key collaborative, successful activities as well as next steps within FAIRsharing. It will also provide information on how to become a recommended repository in FAIRsharing and how to use FAIRsharing to engage with your stakeholders as well as with journal publishers and their data policies.
Sharing COVID-19 research data: the role for digital preservationdri_ireland
Slides for presentation at #WeMissiPRES, online, 22 September 2020. Presentation highlights the role for digital preservation as noted in the RDA COVID-19 Working Group Recommendations and Guidelines on Data Sharing (June 2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.15497/rda00052. Natalie Harrower is the Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland and chaired the Editorial Team of the RDA COVID-19 Working Group.
Presentation to the EOSC workshop on policies (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://eoscfuture.eu/eventsfuture/monitoring-eosc-readiness-fair-data-policies) on what FAIRsharing does for policies, including providing registration, discovery, flexible and clearer descriptions, relationships, machine readability and comparability.
Presentation part of the National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web organized by Rhizome and hosted at the New Museum. The panel titled "The Right to be Forgotten" occurred on Friday, March 23, 2018.
Panel Abstract: When individuals attempt to withdraw their materials from public archives, the goal of preserving the public record comes into conflict with the expectation of “the right to be forgotten.” This panel considers robots.txt, donor forms, and removal requests as negotiated encounters among people, institutions, and law.
Panelists include: Nicola Bingham, Itza Carbajal, Joyce Gabiola (moderator), Dorothy Howard, and Katrina Windon
Individual Presentation Abstract: This research presentation will highlight early findings of a larger research project focusing on the challenges and limitations of donor relationships forms and the implications these forms have on the rights of the donor in the archival field. The research project investigates how donor forms address permissions and consent to disclose personally identifiable information or valuable digital assets from two different participant groups, musicians and social movement organizers. For the purposes of this forum, the presentation will include a brief analysis of donor forms or statements as they relate to web archival donations and practices.
EOSC-Life AGM 2022 Publishing FAIR RI data resources in EOSC.pdfAllyson Lister
FAIRsharing uses collections to create community-specific views of the resource descriptions we store and the relationships among them. This talk describes the work by EOSC-Life Work Package 1 to update and enrich the EOSC-Life collection, which groups together all resources created by EOSC-Life partners. Part of the EOSC-Life AGM 2022 (https://www.eosc-life.eu/news/3rd-agm/).
Protecting plant biodiversity: The ITPGRFA, genome sequencing and the relevan...FAO
The presentation includes information on the ITPGRFA's objectives, the Nagoya Protcol and its comparison with the treaty. Further information on connecting Genomics and other type of information with the Global Information System are also available in the presentation.
http://tiny.cc/FAO-COAG-GS
http;//www.fao.org
GBIF in one slide
Where is the infrastructure in GBIF?
Physical infrastructure
Information infrastructure
Capability infrastructure
Infrastructure usage
RDMkit, a Research Data Management Toolkit. Built by the Community for the ...Carole Goble
https://datascience.nih.gov/news/march-data-sharing-and-reuse-seminar 11 March 2022
Starting in 2023, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require institutes and researchers receiving funding to include a Data Management Plan (DMP) in their grant applications, including the making their data publicly available. Similar mandates are already in place in Europe, for example a DMP is mandatory in Horizon Europe projects involving data.
Policy is one thing - practice is quite another. How do we provide the necessary information, guidance and advice for our bioscientists, researchers, data stewards and project managers? There are numerous repositories and standards. Which is best? What are the challenges at each step of the data lifecycle? How should different types of data? What tools are available? Research Data Management advice is often too general to be useful and specific information is fragmented and hard to find.
ELIXIR, the pan-national European Research Infrastructure for Life Science data, aims to enable research projects to operate “FAIR data first”. ELIXIR supports researchers across their whole RDM lifecycle, navigating the complexity of a data ecosystem that bridges from local cyberinfrastructures to pan-national archives and across bio-domains.
The ELIXIR RDMkit (https://rdmkit.elixir-europe.org (link is external)) is a toolkit built by the biosciences community, for the biosciences community to provide the RDM information they need. It is a framework for advice and best practice for RDM and acts as a hub of RDM information, with links to tool registries, training materials, standards, and databases, and to services that offer deeper knowledge for DMP planning and FAIR-ification practices.
Launched in March 2021, over 120 contributors have provided nearly 100 pages of content and links to more than 300 tools. Content covers the data lifecycle and specialized domains in biology, national considerations and examples of “tool assemblies” developed to support RDM. It has been accessed by over 123 countries, and the top of the access list is … the United States.
The RDMkit is already a recommended resource of the European Commission. The platform, editorial, and contributor methods helped build a specialized sister toolkit for infectious diseases as part of the recently launched BY-COVID project. The toolkit’s platform is the simplest we could manage - built on plain GitHub - and the whole development and contribution approach tailored to be as lightweight and sustainable as possible.
In this talk, Carole and Frederik will present the RDMkit; aims and context, content, community management, how folks can contribute, and our future plans and potential prospects for trans-Atlantic cooperation.
Data policy must be partnered with data practice. Our researchers need to be the best informed in order to meet these new data management and data sharing mandates.
Kathryn Cassidy - What metadata does the Digital Repository of Ireland want, ...dri_ireland
This presentation was given by Kathryn Cassidy, Software Engineer at the Digital Repository of Ireland, at a Digital Preservation Coalition Briefing Day entitled 'Practical Preservation and People: a briefing about metadata'. The Briefing Day was held in the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast on 3 December 2015. The presentation explores the metadata requirements for effective long-term digital preservation in the Digital Repository of Ireland.
AgBioData and FAIRsharing: FAIRsharing: promoting the discovery of data stand...Allyson Lister
Video of this presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNl1oUvWYJE&t=240s
FAIRsharing is an informative and educational resource on interlinked standards, repositories and policies, three key elements of the FAIR ecosystem. FAIRsharing promotes the existence and value of these standards, repositories and policies, fostering a culture change within the research community into one where the use of these resources for FAIRer data is pervasive and seamless. This is achieved by guiding consumers to discover, select and use these resources with confidence, and helping producers to make their resources more visible, more widely adopted and cited. This presentation will highlight key collaborative, successful activities as well as next steps within FAIRsharing. It will also provide information on how to become a recommended repository in FAIRsharing and how to use FAIRsharing to engage with your stakeholders as well as with journal publishers and their data policies.
Sharing COVID-19 research data: the role for digital preservationdri_ireland
Slides for presentation at #WeMissiPRES, online, 22 September 2020. Presentation highlights the role for digital preservation as noted in the RDA COVID-19 Working Group Recommendations and Guidelines on Data Sharing (June 2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.15497/rda00052. Natalie Harrower is the Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland and chaired the Editorial Team of the RDA COVID-19 Working Group.
Presentation to the EOSC workshop on policies (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://eoscfuture.eu/eventsfuture/monitoring-eosc-readiness-fair-data-policies) on what FAIRsharing does for policies, including providing registration, discovery, flexible and clearer descriptions, relationships, machine readability and comparability.
Presentation part of the National Forum on Ethics and Archiving the Web organized by Rhizome and hosted at the New Museum. The panel titled "The Right to be Forgotten" occurred on Friday, March 23, 2018.
Panel Abstract: When individuals attempt to withdraw their materials from public archives, the goal of preserving the public record comes into conflict with the expectation of “the right to be forgotten.” This panel considers robots.txt, donor forms, and removal requests as negotiated encounters among people, institutions, and law.
Panelists include: Nicola Bingham, Itza Carbajal, Joyce Gabiola (moderator), Dorothy Howard, and Katrina Windon
Individual Presentation Abstract: This research presentation will highlight early findings of a larger research project focusing on the challenges and limitations of donor relationships forms and the implications these forms have on the rights of the donor in the archival field. The research project investigates how donor forms address permissions and consent to disclose personally identifiable information or valuable digital assets from two different participant groups, musicians and social movement organizers. For the purposes of this forum, the presentation will include a brief analysis of donor forms or statements as they relate to web archival donations and practices.
EOSC-Life AGM 2022 Publishing FAIR RI data resources in EOSC.pdfAllyson Lister
FAIRsharing uses collections to create community-specific views of the resource descriptions we store and the relationships among them. This talk describes the work by EOSC-Life Work Package 1 to update and enrich the EOSC-Life collection, which groups together all resources created by EOSC-Life partners. Part of the EOSC-Life AGM 2022 (https://www.eosc-life.eu/news/3rd-agm/).
Protecting plant biodiversity: The ITPGRFA, genome sequencing and the relevan...FAO
The presentation includes information on the ITPGRFA's objectives, the Nagoya Protcol and its comparison with the treaty. Further information on connecting Genomics and other type of information with the Global Information System are also available in the presentation.
http://tiny.cc/FAO-COAG-GS
http;//www.fao.org
GBIF in one slide
Where is the infrastructure in GBIF?
Physical infrastructure
Information infrastructure
Capability infrastructure
Infrastructure usage
RDMkit, a Research Data Management Toolkit. Built by the Community for the ...Carole Goble
https://datascience.nih.gov/news/march-data-sharing-and-reuse-seminar 11 March 2022
Starting in 2023, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require institutes and researchers receiving funding to include a Data Management Plan (DMP) in their grant applications, including the making their data publicly available. Similar mandates are already in place in Europe, for example a DMP is mandatory in Horizon Europe projects involving data.
Policy is one thing - practice is quite another. How do we provide the necessary information, guidance and advice for our bioscientists, researchers, data stewards and project managers? There are numerous repositories and standards. Which is best? What are the challenges at each step of the data lifecycle? How should different types of data? What tools are available? Research Data Management advice is often too general to be useful and specific information is fragmented and hard to find.
ELIXIR, the pan-national European Research Infrastructure for Life Science data, aims to enable research projects to operate “FAIR data first”. ELIXIR supports researchers across their whole RDM lifecycle, navigating the complexity of a data ecosystem that bridges from local cyberinfrastructures to pan-national archives and across bio-domains.
The ELIXIR RDMkit (https://rdmkit.elixir-europe.org (link is external)) is a toolkit built by the biosciences community, for the biosciences community to provide the RDM information they need. It is a framework for advice and best practice for RDM and acts as a hub of RDM information, with links to tool registries, training materials, standards, and databases, and to services that offer deeper knowledge for DMP planning and FAIR-ification practices.
Launched in March 2021, over 120 contributors have provided nearly 100 pages of content and links to more than 300 tools. Content covers the data lifecycle and specialized domains in biology, national considerations and examples of “tool assemblies” developed to support RDM. It has been accessed by over 123 countries, and the top of the access list is … the United States.
The RDMkit is already a recommended resource of the European Commission. The platform, editorial, and contributor methods helped build a specialized sister toolkit for infectious diseases as part of the recently launched BY-COVID project. The toolkit’s platform is the simplest we could manage - built on plain GitHub - and the whole development and contribution approach tailored to be as lightweight and sustainable as possible.
In this talk, Carole and Frederik will present the RDMkit; aims and context, content, community management, how folks can contribute, and our future plans and potential prospects for trans-Atlantic cooperation.
Data policy must be partnered with data practice. Our researchers need to be the best informed in order to meet these new data management and data sharing mandates.
Access and Benefit sharing from Genetic ResourcesKaran Veer Singh
Millions of people depend on biological (genetic) resources and traditional knowledge for their livelihoods. While the concept of an access and benefit sharing (ABS) regime is new, access to biological resources and transfer of associated traditional knowledge is centuries old.
Researchers require infrastructures that ensure a maximum of accessibility, stability and reliability to facilitate working with and sharing of research data. Such infrastructures are being increasingly summarised under the term Research Data Repositories (RDR). The project re3data.org – Registry of Research Data Repositories – began to index research data repositories in 2012 and offers researchers, funding organisations, libraries and publishers an overview of the heterogeneous research data repository landscape. In December 2014 re3data.org listed more than 1,030 research data repositories, which are described in detail using the re3data.org schema (http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/re3.003). Information icons help researchers to identify easily an adequate repository for the storage and reuse of their data. This talk describes the heterogeneous RDR landscape and presents a typology of institutional, disciplinary, multidisciplinary and project-specific RDR. Further, it outlines the features of re3data. org and it shows current developments for integration into data management planning tools and other services.
By the end of 2015 re3data.org and Databib (Purdue University, USA) will merge their services, which will then be managed under the auspices of DataCite. The aim of this merger is to reduce duplication of effort and to serve the research community better with a single, sustainable registry of research data repositories. The talk will present this organisational development as a best practice example for the development of international research information services.
Presentation investigating the state of FAIR practice and what is needed to turn FAIR data into reality given at the Danish FAIR conference in Copenhagen on 20th November 2018. https://vidensportal.deic.dk/en/Programme/FAIR_Toolbox_Nov2018 The presentation reflect on recent FAIR studies and international initiatives and outlines the recommendations emerging from the European Commission's FAIR Data Expert Group report - http://tinyurl.com/FAIR-EG
Similar to FAO DOI presentation by Marco Marsella (20)
CIP Poster Genebank Data Management. A Digital Genebank: Information Management & Hardware Technology.
- What data is stored?
- What data is published?
- How is data colected?
AGENDA
Curator considerations for germplasm images
--Include a color calibration chart
--Include a measure tape
--Include a barcode label
--Include a watermark and a standard background color
--Draft guidelines for germplasm images
Data manager considerations for germplasm images
--CIP policy for images
--Update file image properties (metadata) with ExifTool: Authors and Copyright
--Upload image metadata on Genesys: Using a quick guide
Linking in Vitro inventories with bulk media culture.pptxEdwin Rojas
Enable the tracking of contamination of in Vitro culture media in the whole process of plant propagation and helps to decrease the spread of plant parasites. This link between inventory and bulk media culture allow detect the origin of contamination (which bulk media culture was used, when was prepared, technician in charge,…) and localize other inventories contaminated.
Seminar of U.V. Spectroscopy by SAMIR PANDASAMIR PANDA
Spectroscopy is a branch of science dealing the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy refers to absorption spectroscopy or reflect spectroscopy in the UV-VIS spectral region.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy is an analytical method that can measure the amount of light received by the analyte.
A brief information about the SCOP protein database used in bioinformatics.
The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for the structural and evolutionary relationships of proteins. It provides a detailed and curated classification of protein structures, grouping them into families, superfamilies, and folds based on their structural and sequence similarities.
Richard's entangled aventures in wonderlandRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
THE IMPORTANCE OF MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE SAMPLE RETURN.Sérgio Sacani
The return of a sample of near-surface atmosphere from Mars would facilitate answers to several first-order science questions surrounding the formation and evolution of the planet. One of the important aspects of terrestrial planet formation in general is the role that primary atmospheres played in influencing the chemistry and structure of the planets and their antecedents. Studies of the martian atmosphere can be used to investigate the role of a primary atmosphere in its history. Atmosphere samples would also inform our understanding of the near-surface chemistry of the planet, and ultimately the prospects for life. High-precision isotopic analyses of constituent gases are needed to address these questions, requiring that the analyses are made on returned samples rather than in situ.
Professional air quality monitoring systems provide immediate, on-site data for analysis, compliance, and decision-making.
Monitor common gases, weather parameters, particulates.
Cancer cell metabolism: special Reference to Lactate PathwayAADYARAJPANDEY1
Normal Cell Metabolism:
Cellular respiration describes the series of steps that cells use to break down sugar and other chemicals to get the energy we need to function.
Energy is stored in the bonds of glucose and when glucose is broken down, much of that energy is released.
Cell utilize energy in the form of ATP.
The first step of respiration is called glycolysis. In a series of steps, glycolysis breaks glucose into two smaller molecules - a chemical called pyruvate. A small amount of ATP is formed during this process.
Most healthy cells continue the breakdown in a second process, called the Kreb's cycle. The Kreb's cycle allows cells to “burn” the pyruvates made in glycolysis to get more ATP.
The last step in the breakdown of glucose is called oxidative phosphorylation (Ox-Phos).
It takes place in specialized cell structures called mitochondria. This process produces a large amount of ATP. Importantly, cells need oxygen to complete oxidative phosphorylation.
If a cell completes only glycolysis, only 2 molecules of ATP are made per glucose. However, if the cell completes the entire respiration process (glycolysis - Kreb's - oxidative phosphorylation), about 36 molecules of ATP are created, giving it much more energy to use.
IN CANCER CELL:
Unlike healthy cells that "burn" the entire molecule of sugar to capture a large amount of energy as ATP, cancer cells are wasteful.
Cancer cells only partially break down sugar molecules. They overuse the first step of respiration, glycolysis. They frequently do not complete the second step, oxidative phosphorylation.
This results in only 2 molecules of ATP per each glucose molecule instead of the 36 or so ATPs healthy cells gain. As a result, cancer cells need to use a lot more sugar molecules to get enough energy to survive.
Unlike healthy cells that "burn" the entire molecule of sugar to capture a large amount of energy as ATP, cancer cells are wasteful.
Cancer cells only partially break down sugar molecules. They overuse the first step of respiration, glycolysis. They frequently do not complete the second step, oxidative phosphorylation.
This results in only 2 molecules of ATP per each glucose molecule instead of the 36 or so ATPs healthy cells gain. As a result, cancer cells need to use a lot more sugar molecules to get enough energy to survive.
introduction to WARBERG PHENOMENA:
WARBURG EFFECT Usually, cancer cells are highly glycolytic (glucose addiction) and take up more glucose than do normal cells from outside.
Otto Heinrich Warburg (; 8 October 1883 – 1 August 1970) In 1931 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his "discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme.
WARNBURG EFFECT : cancer cells under aerobic (well-oxygenated) conditions to metabolize glucose to lactate (aerobic glycolysis) is known as the Warburg effect. Warburg made the observation that tumor slices consume glucose and secrete lactate at a higher rate than normal tissues.
The increased availability of biomedical data, particularly in the public domain, offers the opportunity to better understand human health and to develop effective therapeutics for a wide range of unmet medical needs. However, data scientists remain stymied by the fact that data remain hard to find and to productively reuse because data and their metadata i) are wholly inaccessible, ii) are in non-standard or incompatible representations, iii) do not conform to community standards, and iv) have unclear or highly restricted terms and conditions that preclude legitimate reuse. These limitations require a rethink on data can be made machine and AI-ready - the key motivation behind the FAIR Guiding Principles. Concurrently, while recent efforts have explored the use of deep learning to fuse disparate data into predictive models for a wide range of biomedical applications, these models often fail even when the correct answer is already known, and fail to explain individual predictions in terms that data scientists can appreciate. These limitations suggest that new methods to produce practical artificial intelligence are still needed.
In this talk, I will discuss our work in (1) building an integrative knowledge infrastructure to prepare FAIR and "AI-ready" data and services along with (2) neurosymbolic AI methods to improve the quality of predictions and to generate plausible explanations. Attention is given to standards, platforms, and methods to wrangle knowledge into simple, but effective semantic and latent representations, and to make these available into standards-compliant and discoverable interfaces that can be used in model building, validation, and explanation. Our work, and those of others in the field, creates a baseline for building trustworthy and easy to deploy AI models in biomedicine.
Bio
Dr. Michel Dumontier is the Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University, founder and executive director of the Institute of Data Science, and co-founder of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data principles. His research explores socio-technological approaches for responsible discovery science, which includes collaborative multi-modal knowledge graphs, privacy-preserving distributed data mining, and AI methods for drug discovery and personalized medicine. His work is supported through the Dutch National Research Agenda, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Horizon Europe, the European Open Science Cloud, the US National Institutes of Health, and a Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network. He is the editor-in-chief for the journal Data Science and is internationally recognized for his contributions in bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and semantic technologies including ontologies and linked data.
Multi-source connectivity as the driver of solar wind variability in the heli...Sérgio Sacani
The ambient solar wind that flls the heliosphere originates from multiple
sources in the solar corona and is highly structured. It is often described
as high-speed, relatively homogeneous, plasma streams from coronal
holes and slow-speed, highly variable, streams whose source regions are
under debate. A key goal of ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter mission is to identify
solar wind sources and understand what drives the complexity seen in the
heliosphere. By combining magnetic feld modelling and spectroscopic
techniques with high-resolution observations and measurements, we show
that the solar wind variability detected in situ by Solar Orbiter in March
2022 is driven by spatio-temporal changes in the magnetic connectivity to
multiple sources in the solar atmosphere. The magnetic feld footpoints
connected to the spacecraft moved from the boundaries of a coronal hole
to one active region (12961) and then across to another region (12957). This
is refected in the in situ measurements, which show the transition from fast
to highly Alfvénic then to slow solar wind that is disrupted by the arrival of
a coronal mass ejection. Our results describe solar wind variability at 0.5 au
but are applicable to near-Earth observatories.
2. www.fao.org/plant-treaty
Background
• The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for
Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)
• Promotes conservation and sustainable use of all Plant
Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the fair
and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of their
use
• Facilitates access to PGRFA as well as to associated
information
• Established in 2004
• 144 contracting parties
3. www.fao.org/plant-treaty
Article 17 of the Treaty
“The Contracting Parties shall cooperate to develop and
strengthen a global information system (GLIS) to
facilitate the exchange of information, based on existing
information systems, on scientific, technical and
environmental matters related to plant genetic resources
for food and agriculture…”
4. www.fao.org/plant-treaty
The SMTA
• Regulates the exchange of PGRFA in the Treaty framework
• Also regulates the exchange of information associated to
the PGRFA
• Provider’s obligation:
All available passport data and, subject to applicable law, any
other associated available non-confidential descriptive information,
shall be made available with the Plant Genetic Resources for Food
and Agriculture provided
• Recipient’s obligation:
The Recipient shall make available to the Multilateral System,
through the information system provided for in Article 17 of the
Treaty, all non-confidential information that results from research
and development carried out on the Material
Information = benefit
5. www.fao.org/plant-treaty
Why DOIs?
• Accurate identification of the PGR is critical for scientific
research and reliable information dissemination
• Each PGR user community has established its own
independent standards for identification
• All communities agree on the importance of a common
system of Permanent Unique Identifiers
• DOIs have been selected after consultation with experts
from many countries and diverse backgrounds
7. www.fao.org/plant-treaty
How GLIS and DOIs will help
Provider
Recipient
GLIS
DOI
1
A
A -> B
DOI
1
A
B
DOI
1
DOI
2
DOI 1
A
DOI 2
B
A = Genetic resource sample
B = Genetic resource sample
GLIS = Global Information System
9. www.fao.org/plant-treaty
Assigning DOIs to PGRFAs
• What is the DOI associated to?
• Physical material, not its description
• Holder of the material
• Descriptors
• Based on Multi Crop Passport Descriptors with some extensions
• Mandatory: Holder, species, method, date, local identifier
• Recommended: Biological status, links to web resources, etc.
• Additional: Information on collecting, breeding, etc.
10. www.fao.org/plant-treaty
The Global Information System (GLIS)
• Identify PGRFA through Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
• Store basic information on PGRFA to support discovery and
resolution
• Collect links to web systems where detailed information can
be found
• Promote standards and formats to facilitate interoperability
and data sharing among systems
• Promote “blessed” systems to facilitate participation
• Capacity building and data quality improvement
12. www.fao.org/plant-treaty
Services offered by GLIS
• HasMetadata expansion
• Allows access to full set of descriptors in XML
• Descriptors in multiple formats (Content Negotiation)
• XML
• JSON
• JSON-LD
• Darwin Core-Archive
• brAPI
• EventData
• GLIS will automatically provide links to publications citing the
current PGRFA’s DOI
13. www.fao.org/plant-treaty
GLIS for the user community
• Free-of-charge DOI minting
• The cost is covered by the Treaty Secretariat
• The International Treaty is Member of DataCite
• The GLIS user community is represented
• Support for GLIS users
• Advice on adoption of DOIs
• Integration Toolkit
• Published formats and protocols to interoperate with GLIS
14. www.fao.org/plant-treaty
How you can register DOIs using GLIS
• Web form
• For small collections or for ad-hoc updates
• Excel or tab-delimited batch files
• For medium size collections or as a stop-gap solution
• XML-based protocol
• For large collections and real-time integration