---
id: "fao_wiews_instcode"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["agriculture", "science"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/fao_wiews_instcode"
---
# FAO WIEWS institute code (INSTCODE) (`fao_wiews_instcode`)
> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.
Code of an institute (genebank, research station, herbarium) in WIEWS, the World Information and Early Warning System on plant genetic resources of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code of the institute's country and a number, as in COL001, and is used as INSTCODE and DONORCODE in Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors (MCPD) of genebank accessions. Codes with obsolete country codes stay in use.
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Agriculture, livestock and food (agriculture), Scientific (science)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier
## Detection
Regular expression (Python `re`):
```
^[A-Z]{3}\d{3,4}$
```
## Examples
- `COL001` — Example in the MCPD v2.1 descriptors
- `AFG001` — Plant Genetic Resources Unit, Ministry of Agriculture, Afghanistan
- `AGO013` — Luanda Herbarium, Universidade Agostinho Neto, Angola
- `DE146` (invalid example) — Two-letter country code
## Translations
- ru: Код учреждения FAO WIEWS (INSTCODE): Код учреждения (генбанка, опытной станции, гербария) в системе FAO WIEWS — трёхбуквенный код страны ISO 3166-1 и номер.
## Sources
- doc:
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## Quality
Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.
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