Survey of information systems and web services useful for the grapevine community - Gaps and Recommendations

The international grapevine community has been working for a decade on recommendations and best practices to facilitate data exchange and reuse. Its first activity consisted in the development of a nomenclature system for grapevine genes that would allow consistent gene naming. The second was to propose a strategy aiming at facilitation grapevine data findability and reuse through recommendation on metadata standards, identifiers associated to samples which use will in turn facilitate the development of a centralized search tool across a federation of databases. The aim of the network was to make a step forward towards the implementation of this strategy by working on the three complementary pillars of success:

• improvement of the standards, ontologies and of guidelines for FAIR data management necessary to the grapevine community
• dissemination and training on these guidelines
• development of a federation of databases holding grapevine data, sharing the same metadata standards and identifiers, being all searchable through the same central portal and allowing data access and reuse.

The first objective of this document is to set up the scene of the third pillar described above by:

• identifying the databases/information systems frequently used by the grapevine community
• checking how data (including metadata) can be accessed from these information systems
• Identifying possible problems and gaps

The second objective is to make recommendations on steps to move forward towards the building of a federation of databases that would collaborate to provide central data services to the grapevine research community.