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 – 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.
DiSSCoTech blog
DiSSCo is getting a new blog going with more in-depth discussions on technical design topics.
DiSSCo Water Cooler
From Thursday 19th March, starting with a session at 12:30 GMT, the Digital Preservation Coalition is launching a new platform called #DPConnect to provide an ongoing, online presence at regular intervals each day, run so that it is available at time zones around the world.
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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.
