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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Apply for DiSSCo’s two advisory boards!
The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is looking to fill two very crucial advisory...
DiSSCo activities in the Balkans
The DiSSCo Research Infrastructure signed in May 2019 a letter of agreement with the German Organization for...
First Transnational Access Call of SYNTHESYS+ Launched
The fourth iteration of the SYNTHESYS projects started on February 1st 2019, including many DiSSCo partners. One key...
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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.
