28 August 2026
Text by DiSSCo CSO
As DiSSCo unifies European natural science collections into a synchronized digital infrastructure, maintaining scientific quality and data trust is critical. The Annotation Validation Framework (AVF) will establish the technical and organizational governance needed to continuously enrich, correct, and update Digital Specimens. Rather than acting as a rigid gatekeeper, the framework balances open, community-driven scientific contributions with scientific rigor and institutional collection sovereignty.
After a preliminary meeting of the DiSSCo National Nodes on the AVF, DiSSCo has launched a widespread consultation on the framework. See all materials below.
Below is the feedback form that you can use to provide your comments. We kindly ask you to provide your feedback by 30 September 2026.
As a reference, you can also access the slides from the preliminary meeting of the DiSSCo National Nodes on the topic of the AVF. Please, click on the image below.
Do you want to know more about the technical side of DiSSCo? DiSSCo puts different technical knowledge platforms at the scientific community’s disposal:
DiSSCoTech: Get the latest technical posts about the design of DiSSCo’s Infrastructure
DiSSCo GitHub: Code hosting for DiSSCo software, version control and collaboration
DiSSCo Modelling Framework: A WikiBase tool that is configured to create an abstraction of the DiSSCo data model