Other Standards

• MCPD v.2.1 - FAO/Bioversity List of Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors – v2.1 (http://www.bioversityinternational.org/e-library/publications/detail/faobioversity-multi-crop-passport-descriptors-v21-mcpd-v21/)

Consultations, Surveys and Meetings

• First Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee on the Global Information System of Article 17 (SAC-GLIS-1), November 2016 (http://www.fao.org/plant-treaty/meetings/meetings-detail/en/c/414978/)
• Report of the First Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee on the Global Information System of Article 17 of the Treaty. FAO, 2016 (http://www.fao.org/3/a-bq811e.pdf)
• Report of the Global survey on descriptors required to register material in the Global Information System on PGRFA. FAO, 2016. (http://www.fao.org/3/a-bp470e.pdf)
• The Vision and the Programme of Work on the Global Information System, contained in Resolution 3/2015 of the Sixth Session of the Governing Body (http://www.fao.org/3/a-bl140e.pdf). FAO, 2015.
• Report of the First meeting of the Expert Consultation on the Global Information System on PGRFA. IT/COGIS-1/15/Report. (http://www.fao.org/3/a-be664e.pdf)
• Summary Report of the Task Force on Permanent Global and Unique Identifiers for PGRFA in the context of the Global Information System of Article 17. FAO, 2015.  (http://www.fao.org/3/a-bq555e.pdf)
• Consultation on the Global Information System on PGRFA - Technical Options to Facilitate the Establishment of Data Links in the Field of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. San Diego, USA, January 2015. IT/COGIS-1/15/3 (http://www.fao.org/3/a-be643e.pdf)

Video presentations on descriptors

• The big challenge: what do they identify
• Managing PGRFA relationships
• DOIs in a nutshell

Background Study Papers

• BSP-10. The Global Information System and Genomic Information: Transparency of Rights and Obligations. FAO, 2016. (http://www.fao.org/3/a-bq620e.pdf)
• BSP-5. Plant Genetic Resources and Genomics: mainstreaming agricultural research through genomics. FAO, 2014. (http://www.fao.org/3/a-be655e.pdf)

Notifications on GLIS for the 2016-2017 biennium

• Descriptors and Guidelines for the Assignation of Digital Object Identifiers within the Global Information System. 17 October 2016. (http://www.fao.org/plant-treaty/notifications/detail-events/en/c/447440/) 
• Update and inputs for the implementation of the Global Information System. 9 June 2016. (http://www.fao.org/3/a-bp423e.pdf)

Other useful links 

• ABSCH- Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-house Platform of the Nagoya Protocol (https://absch.cbd.int/)
• Benefit-sharing Fund project coordinated by Indonesia "Multi-country construction of a test platform for the development and allocation of globally unique identifiers for rice germplasm: (W3B-PR-29). (http://www.fao.org/plant-treaty/areas-of-work/benefit-sharing-fund/projects-funded/bsf-details/en/c/359491/?iso3=IDN)
• CAPFITOGEN (http://www.fao.org/plant-treaty/initiatives/capfitogen/en/)
• CGIAR Open Access and Open Data (http://www.cgiar.org/resources/open-access/)
• CGIAR Research Program and Platform (http://www.cgiar.org/consortium-news/cgiar-research-program-platform-full-proposals-submitted-for-review/ )
• Cyverse (http://www.cyverse.org/)
• DataCite (https://www.datacite.org/)
• DivSeek (www.divseek.org)
• ECPGR - European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/)
• Eurisco (http://eurisco.ipk-gatersleben.de)
• GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility (http://www.gbif.org/)
• Genesys Portal (https://www.genesys-pgr.org/)
• Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (http://www.godan.info)
• GRIN-Global (http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/gringlobal/)
• IBP - Integrated Breeding Platform (https://www.integratedbreeding.net/)
• IRIS - International Rice Information System (http://irri.org/tools-and-databases/international-rice-information-system)
• The DOI® System (http://www.doi.org/)
• WIEWS - World Information and Early Warning System on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (http://www.fao.org/wiews/en/)