Wednesday,  19 July, 2017

11.00 a.m. Rome Time (CEST Conversion to other Timezones)

CONTEXT.  ABOUT THIS WEBINAR

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, Digital Object Identifiers (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.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

After the webinar, attendees will have received an overview of the ITPGRFA and GLIS. They will have a better understanding of the process of applying DOIs to a physical object such as a PGRFA and they will have seen how the adoption of a Permanent Unique Identifier promotes the exchange of information among researchers.