A federated and curated metadata registry of agri-food datasets and data services

Global Information System of the ITPGRFA (GLIS)

GLIS aims at facilitating the exchange of information, based on existing information systems, on scientific, technical and environmental matters related to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, with the expectation that such exchange of information will contribute to the sharing of benefits by making information on Plant Genetic Reso

urces for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) available to all Contracting Parties of the Treaty.
The first service offered by GLIS to its users is the assignment of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to PGRFA.

General
Belongs to network: 
Started in year: 
2017
Contacts: 
Name: 
Marco Marsella
Name: 
The Secretariat of the International Treaty
Geographic
Geographic coverage: 
Global
Country where the service is managed: 
Italy
Content
Interoperability
Access
Software used: 
agINFRA The RING is part of the agINFRA project EC 7th framework program INFRA-2011-1.2.2 - Grant agr. no: 283770