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...
Biodiversity Next Wins New Conference Award 2020!!
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Announcing DiSSCo Prepare’s first All Hands meeting!
Announcing DiSSCo Prepare’s first All Hands meeting!
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.
FAIR Digital Object and Natural Science Collections data
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!
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
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.
The CETAF-DiSSCo COVID-19 Taskforce Reports
The CETAF-DiSSCo COVID-19 Taskforce Reports
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 – A Virtual Conference
TDWG 2020 – A Virtual Conference
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).
DiSSCo – An Open Window to Our Planet’s Natural Diversity
DiSSCo – An Open Window to Our Planet’s Natural Diversity
This promotional short film showcases the active role played by ICEDIG in supporting the digital transformation of Natural Science Collections.
DiSSCoTech blog
DiSSCoTech blog
DiSSCo is getting a new blog going with more in-depth discussions on technical design topics.
DiSSCo Water Cooler
DiSSCo Water Cooler
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.
Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections
Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections
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.
Biodiversity Summit 2020 – conference postponed
Biodiversity Summit 2020 – conference postponed
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.
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