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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Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections
Within EU-funded SYNTHESYS+ project, GBIF will convene a virtual workshop on 12-13 March 2020 to invite participants to develop a shared road map for implementation across the biodiversity informatics community.
Biodiversity Summit 2020 – conference postponed
POSTPONED – iDigBio, National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian, GBIF, and TDWG are jointly hosting the Biodiversity Summit 2020 from 20 to 25 September 2020 in Alexandria, VA, USA.
DiSSCo part of Biodiversity Research Infrastructures database
The Belgian Biodiversity Platform has developed an online searchable listing with existing Biodiversity Research Infrastructures (BRIs) that are available to the scientific community.
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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.
