The document summarizes the Czech national program for plant genetic resources, which is coordinated by the Crop Research Institute in Prague. It maintains approximately 60,000 plant accessions across 12 institutions. The program converted from a previous offline database system to the online GRIN Global system between 2008-2015. This transition presented challenges in migrating taxonomic and other data fields, but the Czech program now has a functional online system and aims to improve training, data quality and integration with other European databases.

1. GRIN Czech
Workshop GRIN Global
8.-12.2.2016
Crop Research Institute, Prague

2. GRIN Czech
 National programme for genetic
resources - from 1993
 CRI – coordinating center; server
 12 institutions
 Approx.60 curators and technicians
 Passport data – 65 391 accessions
(1173 taxons)
 CH&E data – 1 087 284 traits

3. GRIN Czech
Aromatic and
medicinal plants
2%
Beta and other seed
root crops
<1%
Cereals
39%
Flowers
3%
Rhododendron, Rosa
1%
Fruit woody plants
6%
Grasses
4%
Vegetables
14%
Food legumes
10%
Miscelaneous
<1%
Oil plants
3%
Potatoes
4%
Fodder plants
3%
Grape
2%
Industrial plants
5%
Zea and alternative
cereals
3%
Crop structure of Czech collections of plant genetic resources

4. Former IS
 Evigez
 DOS platform, software FoxPro 2.5,
 Off-line communication with curators
 Incompatible with new technology
 Imposibility of further development

5. Conversion to GRIN Global
2008 - 2010
– I.Faberová participated in the project G-G
2011-2013
- translations, data preparation, waiting for
suitable version of G-G
June 2014 – June 2015
- restart of work
- transformation and migration of data -
external IT firm
- training of curators

6. Challenges
 New columns in Accession table – not in
Accession Wizard (curator, maintained by)
 Taxonomy – different system of taxonomy,
not accepted name (added record Full taxon)
 New codes – add again after upgrade
 Site x Cooperator
 FAO Instcode – missing Lookup picker in
Cooperator
 Missing wizard for CH&E data

7. Lessons learnt
Be prepared:
 Curators PC skills differ significantly
 Training environment; QA
 Not all willing to change
 Check of data after migration by curators –
problem
 Repeat and repeat

8. Today and the future
Functional system
Permanent technical support
Advance training – pictures…
Improvement of mainteinance policy
Molecular data?
Upgrade on higher version?
Eurisco