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We present BiCIKL at RDA’s 17th Virtual Plenary
14 April 2021 Next week, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 17th Virtual Plenary Meeting will host an interesting session jointly organised by the Biodiversity Data Integration IG and ELIXIR Bridging Forge IG: “Integration and linking between Biodiversity and Life...
Job opening: Lead programmer for DS architecture pilots
13 April 2021 We are hiring! Naturalis is looking for a Lead Programmer for the development of DiSSCo Digital Specimen Architecture pilots (2 years, 32- 36 hours a week). The objective of this position is to further develop and transition the nsidr.org demonstrator...
SYNTHESYS+ deadlines for TA/VA access EXTENDED!
18 March 2021 SYNTHESYS+, one of the DiSSCo-linked projects, has just extended the deadline for its 3rd Transnational Access call for SYNTHESYS+ to fund short-term research visits to consortium institutions and the 2nd Virtual Access call to fund...
FAIR Digital Objects, RDA and DiSSCo
18 March 2021 Scroll down to watch the webinar “Connecting Data, Institutions and People: FAIR Digital Objects, RDA outputs and the design of the DiSSCo Research Infrastructure” conducted by DiSSCo’s Data Architect, Sharif Islam for the Research Data Alliance (RDA)...
DiSSCo’s first all-hands meeting: how it went
8 February 2021 DiSSCo’s first all-hands meeting (AHM1) took place last 18-22 January. The event was a great opportunity for all of us to really look closely into DiSSCo: the scope of the project, its different dimensions, all the activities, the expectations... It...
Consultation on the Convergence of Digital and Extended Specimens
27 January 2021 We are pleased to announce a community consultation on the convergence of DiSSCo’s digital specimen and BCoN’s extended specimen concepts for enhancing global access to biodiversity data. The consultation will begin next February 16 and is organized...