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.
TDWG 2020 will be a virtual conference divided into working sessions (Sep 21-25) followed by a second week dedicated to dissemination and sharing (Oct 19-23).
This promotional short film showcases the active role played by ICEDIG in supporting the digital transformation of Natural Science Collections.
DiSSCo is getting a new blog going with more in-depth discussions on technical design topics.
From Thursday 19th March, starting with a session at 12:30 GMT, the Digital Preservation Coalition is launching a new platform called #DPConnect to provide an ongoing, online presence at regular intervals each day, run so that it is available at time zones around the world.
Within EU-funded SYNTHESYS+ project, GBIF will convene a virtual workshop on 12-13 March 2020 to invite participants to develop a shared road map for implementation across the biodiversity informatics community.
POSTPONED – iDigBio, National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian, GBIF, and TDWG are jointly hosting the Biodiversity Summit 2020 from 20 to 25 September 2020 in Alexandria, VA, USA.
The Belgian Biodiversity Platform has developed an online searchable listing with existing Biodiversity Research Infrastructures (BRIs) that are available to the scientific community.
DiSSCo is proud to announce DiSSCo RIsing, a series of exciting events that will take place in Helsinki, Finland in February 2020, hosted by the Finnish Museum of Natural History LUOMUS.
Starting today, the call for applications to become a member of the DiSSCo General Assembly is officially open!
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