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...
18 March 2021 SYNTHESYS+, one of the DiSSCo-linked projects, has just extended the deadline for its 3rd Transnational...
18 March 2021 Scroll down to watch the webinar “Connecting Data, Institutions and People: FAIR Digital Objects, RDA outputs...
8 February 2021 DiSSCo’s first all-hands meeting (AHM1) took place last 18-22 January. The event was a great opportunity...
27 January 2021 We are pleased to announce a community consultation on the convergence of DiSSCo’s digital specimen and...
19 January 2021 Less than a week ago, we had the pleasure of welcoming more than 65 experts from all over the world to...
30 December 2020 Connecting the European Environment Agency (EEA) and DiSSCo could bring about significant improvements to...
9 December 2020 Biodiversity Next is the shiny brand new winner in the Best New Conference or Event category at the...
For an entire week, experts in the areas of governance, business, technology, services, big data, and policies will take part in more than 20 working sessions to discuss and produce key elements of what will become Europe's leading natural science collections Research Infrastructure, DiSSCo RI.
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.
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.
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.
After three months of intensive collaboration, the CETAF-DiSSCo Covid-19 Task Force presented preliminary results of the work of more than 60 international dedicated scientists and bioinformatics professionals on 17 jul 2020.
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