27 March 2024
Researchers around the world accessing interlinked data about millions of natural history collection specimens at the click of a button. A dream? Not anymore, really. At least for DiSSCo UK!
Our partners from DiSSCo UK have just secured £155 million from the Museum and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the UK for a 10-year natural programme to digitise natural science collections all over the country. The Natural History Museum London, partner of DiSSCo, will lead a group of 90 partners across the UK. This way, the UK makes it into the growing list of countries which have set up digitisation programmes linked to DiSSCo, like Denmark, France and Bulgaria.
Needless to say, mass-scale digitisation is an essential step in the process of creating the digital twins of the millions of specimens held in European collections. It is also a crucial requirement to fulfil DiSSCo’s vision of an open system of collections that relies on human and artificial intelligence to openly provide their knowledge to the scientific community following the FAIR principles.
Read all the details in the press release from our DiSSCo partner, the Natural History Museum London.
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