Notes on DiSSCo applications (IV): Virtual collections
13 January 2025For several years now, DiSSCo has promised a true digital transformation for natural history collections...
Notes on DiSSCo applications (IV): Virtual collections
Digital specimens
Notes on DiSSCo applications (III): Machine annotations
Notes on DiSSCo applications (III): Machine annotations
17 December 2025For several years now, DiSSCo has promised a true digital transformation for natural history collections...
Notes on DiSSCo applications (II): ELViS
Notes on DiSSCo applications (II): ELViS
8 December 2025For several years now, DiSSCo has promised a true digital transformation for natural history collections...
Notes on DiSSCo applications (I): Users Group
Notes on DiSSCo applications (I): Users Group
26 November 2025For several years now, DiSSCo has promised a true digital transformation for natural history collections...
Watch DiSSCo’s technical demo session VI
Watch DiSSCo’s technical demo session VI
19 October 2025DiSSCo demos are back! It has been a while, and the team has gone through some changes, but that didn’t mean...
DiSSCo’s Digital Specimen Data Enrollment
DiSSCo’s Digital Specimen Data Enrollment
Join the Future of Scientific Collections Your specimens hold answers to the planet’s most urgent challenges - it is time to...
Five million digital specimens and images in DiSSCo: millions more to come
Five million digital specimens and images in DiSSCo: millions more to come
20 Aug. 2025Authors: Sharif Islam, Wouter Addink, Soulaine Theocharides, and Sam Leeflang. We are proud to announce a major...
The European Loans and Visits System (for natural history collections) unveiled!
The European Loans and Visits System (for natural history collections) unveiled!
1st Jul. 2025Last June 26th, our colleagues from the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, in Paris, conducted an interactive...
Get to know DiSSCo’s new service: SpLAT!
Get to know DiSSCo’s new service: SpLAT!
4th Jun. 2025In this new video, our colleague, Soulaine Theocharides, from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Netherlands),...
DiSSCo Transition Machine Annotation Service Hackathon!
DiSSCo Transition Machine Annotation Service Hackathon!
(Updated) 1st Feb. 2025BRIEF REPORT ON THE DISSCO MACHINE ANNOTATION SERVICES HACKATHON. From 24 to 26 March 2025, fifteen...
DiSSCo and BCoN launch together a collaboration call for Global and Open Process for Interoperable Enriched Specimen Information Models
DiSSCo and BCoN launch together a collaboration call for Global and Open Process for Interoperable Enriched Specimen Information Models
Following the BOF01: Converging Digital Specimens and Extended Specimens - Towards a global specification birds-of-a-feather session presented at TDWG 2020 Virtual Conference on 22 Sept: the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) together with the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) initiated a collaboration call to converge towards a global specification on Digital and Extended Specimens.
Digital Object Architecture (DOA) for FAIR Data and Services in Biodiversity Science and Geoscience
Digital Object Architecture (DOA) for FAIR Data and Services in Biodiversity Science and Geoscience
A new study examines how Digital Object Architecture, a logical extension of the globally adopted Internet Architecture addresses the challenges of actively stewarding the aggregation and virtualization of widely distributed data about biological and geological specimens in natural science collections.
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