AGRICULTURE

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AGRICULTURETheme 2
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Working sessions

• Crop Trait ontology
• Biocuration in agrodatabases
• SPM III Visual and textual standards for
  taxonomic identification
• Species-related databases, information systems
  and inventories of cultivated and useful plants
• DarwinCore Germplasm Extension and GBIF IPT
  deployment
• Standards for Plant traits (cultivated and wild)
  - expanding standards to include characterization
  and evaluation data, phenotypic descriptors
• Ecosystem approach to genetic resources
  management
• Herbarium digitization
• Traditional knowledge

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Crop Trait ontology - propositions

• Find mechanisms for the community can participate
  to the Crop Ontology activities
• Use existing ontologies cross products
• Further use Terminizer (University of Manchester)
  
• A brainstorming workshop with multidisciplinary
  group to define, agree and validate all concepts
  around the Plant Trait Ontology
• Joint effort with TDWG Ontology

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Data quality (Biocuration)

• A TDWG Interest group on Data quality management
• Awareness to Decisions makers and donors
• Define Incentives for providing data quality
• Define DQI (data quality indicators),
  validators , metadata, scoring
• Differentiate the interpreted and the
  original data from data source. Define what is
  original data?
• Develop generic tools that are simple to use
  electronic curators
• Data quality control generating quality reports
  structured, standardized
• What quality control for evaluation/ phenotypic
  data ?

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Plant Traits

• Core controlled vocabulary and a Trait ontology
• Provenance of the material
• Obtained from the wild or propagated
• Get the data directly from the wild accession
  data integration
• Necessary metadata
• Conservation trait - Is a taxon properly
  conserved from each bioregion total number of
  samples stored in ex situ ? Darwin Core extension
• IUCN indicators to focus on priority taxon

Definition of Trait concept needed
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Plant Traits

• Informing genebanks community about
• Darwin Core Extension and GBIF tools
• Test IPT in genebanks
• Look at light version of SDD
• Existing databases LEDA Trait base

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Traditional knowledge

• real  action --where biodiversity is being
  created, or is being destroyedis in situ.
• documenting information about the dynamics of
  biodiversity, in situ - Processes generating
  diversity
• Indicators of change/erosion
• Integration of in situ data is important for both
  wild and domesticated biodiversity.

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Traditional knowledge

• Compiling and sharing data on local knowledge and
  integrating it into other biodiversity databases
• Aid in management and conservation - hotspots
  of local knowledge about agrobiodiversity, or
  of local creation
• Revival of TDWG interest group on 'economic
  botany

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Clear that collaboration between TDWG and
genebank community is beneficial for both

• Sharing infrastructure
• Exchange tools, models, data