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Training

Find below the programme and reference material used for the training workshop jointly organized by RICP, ECPGR and IPGRI, Prague, Czech Republic, 8-13 September 2002 and also for the EPGRIS workshop of Sub-region 2, organized by IPGRI, 19-23 May 2003.

Report of the training workshop in Prague, September 2002, available [here]

Title:

Training workshop on PGR documentation: building a national ex situ PGR inventory.

 

List of reference and background documents (also available in Word [here]):

 

1. Workshops Agenda - workshop at IPGRI, 19-23 May 2003

2. Training course evaluation form  

3. EPGRIS Web site documents  

4. EURISCO prototype Web site (Logon: test / Password: demo)

5. EURISCO Uploading intranet (temporary logon and password is the ISO code of the country)

6. Discussion paper:  

- Methodology for creating a national inventory, 2001  

- Technical description of the EURISCO uploading mechanism, 2002

- National Inventories, EURISCO and Central Crop Databases: communicating vessels

- Helmut Knüpffer, Handling of characterization and evaluation data in crop databases in ECPGR Report of a Network Coordinating Group on Cereals, July 2000, pages 58-61

7. Standards:   

-  EURISCO Descriptors for uploading information from National Inventories to EURISCO  

-  FAO/IPGRI Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors, December 2001  

-  OLD VERSION: FAO/IPGRI Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors, 1998  

- Standard country codes, ISO 3166, extended list: updated 03/09/2002 and ISO 3166 Code list: background information  

8. Database information:

- FAO/WIEWS Introduction materials on institutes codes  

- IPGRI/GRIN Taxonomic Nomenclature Checker

- Electronic Seed Storage Behaviour Compendium  

9. List of downloadable IPGRI training materials  

10. List of IPGRI publications (printed copy) - information also available on the web site [here]

11. Guidebook for Genetic Resources Documentation: a self-teaching approach to the understanding, analysis and development of genetic resources documentation, IPGRI, Rome, Italy

Example of a crop specific descriptors - Allium

12. CD with manuals of Apache, PhP, MySQL, ADODB

13. Database demo:

- Access database for a national inventory developed during the workshop in Prague, September 2002

- Access database with example data developed during the workshop in IPGRI, Rome, May 2003 (please note that this dataset is an example only and does not correspond to any real accessions)

14. CD of DIVA-GIS

 Workshops planned:

Sub-region 1, organized by NGB, 3-10 April 2003

Sub-region 2, organized by IPGRI, 19-23 May 2003

Sub-region 3, organized by CGN, 2-6 June 2003

Sub-region 4, organized by ZADI, 12-16 May 2003

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