24 June 2026
DiSSCo Sweden has been included on the Swedish Research Council’s national roadmap for Research Infrastructure and classified as A1, the highest priority category. This means that the proposed national node is considered ready for a future infrastructure call and eligible to apply for national funding in the next relevant round.
The decision represents a significant recognition of the need for a national Swedish node that can connect Sweden’s natural science collections to the European DiSSCo RI and make them more accessible, interoperable, and research-ready. It recognizes the need to make Sweden’s biodiversity and geodiversity collections more accessible, searchable, interoperable, and reusable for research, innovation, policy, and society.
The Swedish Research Council highlights the high scientific and national relevance of DiSSCo Sweden and its role as a complement to existing infrastructures such as SBDI/GBIF Sweden.
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