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 Information Day in Austria
On 25 November 2019, the National History Museum Vienna will host an the DiSSCo Austria Event, an information day presenting DiSSCo and the national consortium to all relevant stakeholders.
Biodiversity_Next conference in Leiden
Major players in biodiversity informatics are joining forces with the international conference Biodiversity_Next in Leiden on 22 – 25 October 2019. The objective is to develop a global biodiversity information strategy to help secure the earth’s geological and biological wealth.
DiSSCo joins GBIF
DiSSCo is joining GBIF as the latest non-country Participant in the network. Like GBIF, DiSSCo embraces open data for mass-scale digitisation of specimens of European collections
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The foundation
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.
