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7 docs tagged with "MCPD"

Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors - the international standard for exchanging germplasm passport data

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Data curation and validation

Validating your prepared passport data against the MCPD standard, understanding the Passport Data Completeness Index and iteratively improving your records over time.

Minimum data requirements

Which MCPD Genesys treats as mandatory, which are strongly recommended and which are optional, plus the common pitfalls in each mandatory field.

Preparing MCPD-compliant data

Step-by-step guidance on preparing passport data to the MCPD v2.1 standard, file structure, date formats, country codes, institute codes, controlled vocabularies and coordinates.

What is passport data?

An introduction to passport data for genebank curators preparing to publish on Genesys: what passport data is, how it differs from characterization and evaluation data and how to manage personally identifiable and sensitive information responsibly.