Jose Alonso, Author at DiSSCo

SYNTHESYS+ deadlines for TA/VA access EXTENDED!

18 March 2021 SYNTHESYS+, one of the DiSSCo-linked projects, has just extended the deadline for its 3rd Transnational...

FAIR Digital Objects, RDA and DiSSCo

18 March 2021 Scroll down to watch the webinar “Connecting Data, Institutions and People: FAIR Digital Objects, RDA outputs...

DiSSCo’s first all-hands meeting: how it went

8 February 2021 DiSSCo’s first all-hands meeting (AHM1) took place last 18-22 January. The event was a great opportunity...

Consultation on the Convergence of Digital and Extended Specimens

27 January 2021 We are pleased to announce a community consultation on the convergence of DiSSCo’s digital specimen and...

DiSSCo presents its PID consultation results

19 January 2021 Less than a week ago, we had the pleasure of welcoming more than 65 experts from all over the world to...

DiSSCo and the EEA: the Benefits from Identifying Common Service Interests

30 December 2020 Connecting the European Environment Agency (EEA) and DiSSCo could bring about significant improvements to...

Biodiversity Next Wins New Conference Award 2020!!

9 December 2020 Biodiversity Next is the shiny brand new winner in the Best New Conference or Event category at the...

FAIR Digital Object and Natural Science Collections data

One of the key elements of DiSSCo’s data infrastructure design is the ‘Digital Specimen’ -- a FAIR Digital Object acting as a digital representation on the Internet for a specific physical specimen in a collection. The ideas for the Digital Object as an element in a data infrastructure was proposed in the output on virtual layer recommendations by the Data Fabric IG and in the basic vocabulary from the Data Foundation and Terminology WG.

NHM London is hiring a Business Analyst in Science Digitisation!

The Natural History Museum’s informatics group are leading members of a series of European Commission (EC) funded digital projects working to transform the operation of European natural science collections. These multi-million Euro international initiatives bring together the collections of 115 institutions across 15 countries, representing over one billion scientific specimens and more than 5,000 scientists.

DiSSCo and BCoN launch together a collaboration call for Global and Open Process for Interoperable Enriched Specimen Information Models

Following the BOF01: Converging Digital Specimens and Extended Specimens - Towards a global specification birds-of-a-feather session presented at TDWG 2020 Virtual Conference on 22 Sept: the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) together with the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) initiated a collaboration call to converge towards a global specification on Digital and Extended Specimens.