Welcome to DiSSCo Prepare: The Project driving DiSSCo – the Distributed System of Scientific Collections. It will ignite DiSSCo’s RI-volution to bring the irreplaceable data stored in natural science collections to life, enabling research at an unprecedented scale.
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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).
18-22 May 2020: Biodiversity in the spotlight of this week world celebrations!
''Our solutions are in nature'' End of January, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity announced...
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.
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About DiSSCo
DiSSCo Prepare is the preparatory phase project for DiSSCo. The DiSSCo RI works for the digital unification of all European natural science assets under common curation and access policies and practices. These aim to make the data easily Findable, more Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). As such, DiSSCo enables the transformation of a fragmented landscape of the crucial natural science collections into an integrated knowledge base that provides interconnected hard evidence on the natural world.
DiSSCo represents the largest ever formal agreement between natural history museums, botanical gardens and collection-holding universities in the world.
