Open Access
Over three years, DiSSCo Prepare will raise the implementation readiness level of the DiSSCo research infrastructure across five dimensions: scientific, technical, data, organizational, and financial. Achieving targeted readiness levels will lay the groundwork for and favorably position DiSSCo to implement its critical construction phase.
DiSSCo Prepare consists of nine targeted work packages covering its five dimensions of implementation, and each work package will generate milestones and deliverables (reports, analyses and actionable recommendations) as project outputs. The work packages are coordinated and interdependent and their inherent discovery process means that these deliverables will become living documents as insights evolve and mature reflecting DiSSCo’s continuous planning and stewardship. By project end, the sum total of all DiSSCo Prepare deliverables will be compiled and provide the framework for DiSSCo’s Construction Masterplan that will guide DiSSCo’s next phase, DiSSCo Construct (2022-2024).
In keeping with DiSSCo’s commitment to open access and open science, all DiSSCo project outcomes including those pertaining to its design study (ICEDIG), DiSSCo-linked project (Synthesys+) and DiSSCo Prepare are published in DiSSCo’s knowledge base as they become available, and may be sorted by project and thematic domain, printed, or downloaded.
All additional outputs of DiSSCo and its linked projects, can be found here. There, deliverables can be sorted by project or thematic domain.
List of Milestones
Below, you will addtionally find a list of all the Milestones of the project. As opposed to the project deliverables, those will not be made publicly available by default. However, the list can be used to track the project’s progress. Should you have a question about a specific milestone, please contact us!
| Nr | Title | Date | WP |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corpus of life science user stories and use cases compiled, gaps identified and new surveys, if any, initiated | October 2020 | 1 |
| 2 | Corpus of Earth science user stories and use cases compiled, gaps identified and new surveys, if any, initiated | October 2020 | 1 |
| 3 | Corpus of previous studies on prioritisation of digitisation compil | February 2022 | 1 |
| 4 | Corpus of previous studies on socioeconomic impact compiled | February 2022 | 1 |
| 5 | Recommendations on suitable training mechanisms | December 2021 | 2 |
| 6 | Landscape analysis of BPs for training delivery completed | May 2022 | 2 |
| 7 | Compilation of services and facilities to be included in the helpdesk completed | September 2021 | 2 |
| 8 | Needs for helpdesk Supporting Documentation identified | January 2022 | 2 |
| 9 | Interviews with HR managers completed | January 2021 | 2 |
| 10 | Portfolio completed | January 2022 | 2 |
| 11 | Consultation and analysis (1/4 contributing to Deliverable 3.1) | July 2020 | 3 |
| 12 | Prototype institutional dashboards (2/4 contributing to D3.1) | January 2021 | 3 |
| 13 | Case Studies (3/4 contributing to D3.1) | May 2021 | 3 |
| 14 | Digital and data competencies framework (4/4 contributing to D3.1) | Juillet 2021 | 3 |
| 15 | Standard Operating Procedures for digitisation (SOPs) (1/4 contributing to D3.2) | January 2022 | 3 |
| 16 | Best practice standardised Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) procedures (2/4 contributing to D3.2) | March 2022 | 3 |
| 17 | Pre-Digitisation Curation (3/4 contributing to D3.2) | May 2022 | 3 |
| 18 | Digitisation Monitoring (4/4 contributing to D3.2) | May 2022 | 3 |
| 19 | Development of staff secondment procedures (1/2 contributing to D3.3) | February 2022 | 3 |
| 20 | Distributed teamwork practices (2/2 contributing to D3.3) | January 2023 | 3 |
| 21 | Workshop on parameters | May 2020 | 4 |
| 22 | Needs listed based on potential financial return | Januray 2021 | 4 |
| 23 | Revenue stream based on identified partnerships | September 2021 | 4 |
| 24 | Requirements for implementation of Cost Book | July 2022 | 4 |
| 25 | Set of indicators forming the basis of Cost Book | July 2020 | 4 |
| 26 | Capital expenditure indicators for the Cost Book | July 2021 | 4 |
| 27 | IT infrastructure and data preservation indicators for the Cost Book | July 2022 | 4 |
| 28 | Functional technical implementation of DiSSCo Knowledgebase and documentation of most relevant building blocks | July 2021 | 5 |
| 29 | Implementation of concepts for sustainability of services, CMS, and overall TRL | July 2021 | 5 |
| 30 | Documentation of PIDs relevant for DiSSCo technical infrastructure | July 2021 | 5 |
| 31 | DiSSCo Knowledgebase fully operational | January 2022 | 5 |
| 32 | Compilation of relevant data standards | January 2021 | 5 |
| 33 | A functional prototype of DiSSCo Modelling Framework | July 2021 | 5 |
| 34 | Compilation of data standards forming the basis for the initial version of the DiSSCo Digital Specimen Object Specifications | January 2022 | 5 |
| 35 | A functional prototype for interoperability and exchange implemented by a subset of CMS | March 2022 | 6 |
| 36 | Demonstrative implementation of Machine Learning services for the DiSSCo knowledge graph | September 2022 | 6 |
| 37 | Specific user services, in particular, UCAS and European Loans and Visits System (ELViS), to make use of the DiSSCo APIs | March 2022 | 6 |
| 38 | Establish MoUs with relevant initiatives like GBIF, iDigBio, ALA, Geo BON, ELIXIR | September 2022 | 6 |
| 39 | Analysis of the legal entity models and their suitability for achieving DiSSCo objectives | December 2020 | 7 |
| 40 | Summary of NTFs' comments on the governance model elaborated for the submission phase | February 2021 | 7 |
| 41 | Draft strategy document and operational planning (Task 7.1) | July 2021 | 7 |
| 42 | Summary of NTFs' comments on the proposal for an update/ upgraded governance model (Task 7.1) | February 2022 | 7 |
| 43 | Design of the DiSSCo policy framework tool (Task 7.3) | January 2021 | 7 |
| 44 | Website Operational (Task 8.1) | March 2020 | 8 |
| 45 | First communication strategy campaign launched targeting national nodes engagement | July 2020 | 8 |
| 46 | National & Institutional level strategies collected | July 2020 | 8 |
| 47 | Setting criteria for the procurement framework | October 2020 | 8 |
| 48 | Initial findings for specialisation plan | July 2021 | 8 |
| 49 | Identifying indicators for alignment | July 2021 | 8 |
| 50 | Outreach & Advocacy Strategic plan first version in place | July 2021 | 8 |
| 51-62 | Executive Board Meetings | Every 3 Months | 9 |
| 63-67 | Funder Forum Meeting | Every 6 Months | 9 |
| 68 | Risk Registry Update | January 2021 | 9 |
| 69-70 | Roundtables | July 2021/22 | 9 |