MIRRI-ERIC Data_Standard_V1.0

The MIRRI Information System (MIRRI-IS) is the reference database and analysis platform of MIRRI-ERIC (Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure — European Research Infrastructure Consortium). It includes data from catalogues of partner Culture Collections (CCs) plus reference taxonomy databases and software tools for phylogenomic analysis of microorganisms collected and characterized by CCs.

In order to integrate all catalogues into one database, CCs have agreed on shared specifications of relevant information for the different resource types. Guidelines including a description of the datasets have therefore been approved and published and can be found on the file here present.

In the file here present you will find the following list of approved documents serving as reference for users willing to link their information systems to the MIRRI-IS through its APIs:

• Preface to the MIRRI-IS dataset (file named "MIRRI-IS_dataset_preface")
• Guide to create an Excel file for uploading Microorganisms dataset (file named "MIRRI_IS_dataset_HowToCompileTheSheets_v5.1_20230324")
• Specifications (file named "MIRRI-IS_dataset_Specifications")
• Excel template for Microorganisms dataset (file named "MIRRI-IS_dataset_template_v5.1.2_20230512-2")
• Data exchange format - JSON (file named "mirri_data_standard.schema")

Other approved documents:

• Web Services (APIs)
• Dataverse platform
• Plasmids Specifications
• Viruses Specifications

Mandatory and non-mandatory information
At present, only some of the information included in the specifications (file named "MIRRI-IS_dataset_Specifications") are mandatory and they are highlighted in the specifications. MIRRI-IS will discard records missing mandatory data fields. All other data fields are strongly recommended and collections are invited to submit all data they have. The presence or absence of some non-mandatory information is a criterium for defining the quality of the submitted data and for ordering results of user queries. Results of queries carried out on the the MIRRI-IS integrated catalogue will therefore be sorted by relevance first and then by completeness of data. A list of non-mandatory fields which are used for sorting results, have been defined for each resource type.