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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Save the date for Biodiversity_next: 21-25 October 2019
At the end of 2019 we bring you Biodiversity_next, a joint international conference on digital science for biological...
DiSSCo has been officially accepted on the ESFRI roadmap!
We have had amazing news! On Friday the 29th of June 2018 the news that DiSSCo has been officially accepted on the...
DiSSCo welcomes their 115th member: The Bavarian Natural History Collections
DiSSCo is very pleased to announce the 115th member of the DiSSCo consortium: the SNSB (Staatliche...
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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.
