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Digitize, share, connect – Data from natural history collections go mobile at ETH Zürich
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” - The Entomological Collection of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) is currently digitizing its collection of butterflies and moths. In an article including maps, interviews and images they inform...
Starting the Conversation at the ICEDIG Opening Conference
With ICEDIG now running its course, the first stakeholder engagement efforts of the project were launched at the highly anticipated ICEDIG Opening Conference which was held on March 6th, 2018. The event was hosted by the Finnish Natural History Museum at the...
ICEDIG opening conference – 6 March 2018 – Helsinki
To view videos of the talks and download the presentations, please click here. ICEDIG “Innovation and Consolidation for large scale Digitisation of natural heritage” is a project directly contributing to the preparation of DiSSCo. Funded by the H2020...
DiSSCo endorses the EOSC Declaration
The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) welcomes and fully endorses the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Declaration, recognising the mission-critical role of EOSC towards an open science and open innovation research landscape. DiSSCo acknowledges...
Further engaging Norwegian Museums
DiSSCo premise and technical architecture was presented at the annual Norwegian Museums' IT (MUSIT) seminar. Norway participates in DiSSCo through a national DiSSCo consortium formed by four natural science Museums.
DiSSCo @ TDWG 2017
The DiSSCo technical architecture was presented at the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) conference in Ottawa, Canada [1-6 October 2017]. The presentation aimed at exposing key technical elements of the data model and service development of the new Research...