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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DiSSCo invited at EOSC Summit 2018
DiSSCo has been invited to participate to the 2018 European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Summit. The summit takes place...
iDigBio press release: ICEDIG – a design refinement project for DiSSCo
iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections) puslished a press release about ICEDIG, the design study for DiSSCo, in...
Digitize, share, connect – Data from natural history collections go mobile at ETH Zürich
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” - The Entomological Collection of the Swiss Federal Institute of...
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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.
