Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
Date: 2013-11-01 09:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Last modified: 2013-10-08
Abstract
The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) is a global network of well-managed collections of genomic tissue and DNA samples from across the Tree of Life. One major goal of the Network is to provide access to genome-quality samples and all related data for research. Members of the GGBN require shared standards to secure interoperability and publish information on their tissue and DNA holdings through a shared data portal. The upcoming GGBN data portal will be based on the DNA Bank Network's data portal, and will work for both BioCASe/ABCD (Access to Biological Collection Data) and IPT (Integrated Publishing Toolkit) / DwC-A (Darwin Core-Archives), and furthermore DiGIR (Distributed Generic Information Retrieval) providers (voucher specimens at non-GGBN institutions). Darwin Core serves as the data provision schema for many GGBN member institutions, but lacks an extension to publish DNA and tissue data. The DwC-A DNA and Tissue Extension, drafted at the 2012 TDWG Conference, was tested for review. The purpose of this work shop is to review the DwC-A DNA and Tissue Extension and ABCDDNA for the submission to TDWG as formal standards. Test case results will be reviewed and gaps will be filled.