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Data is most reusable where data types are simple and easy to describe, and when the community is organized and collaborative.
— Quote from “FAIR in practice”
Our most recent blog posts on technical design of the DiSSCo infrastructure
DiSSCo Demo VI 10-09-2025
DiSSCo demos are back! It has been a while, and the team has gone through some changes, but that didn’t mean that development has halted. In fact, DiSSCo has hit an impressive milestone of over 5 million DOI’s minted. In additional to filling our production environment, we have some new and existing features to present.…
Five million digital specimens and images in DiSSCo: millions more to come
Authors: Sharif Islam, Wouter Addink, Soulaine Theocharides, and Sam Leeflang. We are proud to announce a major milestone: over five million digital specimens and digital media objects are now available in DiSSCo. You can see them right now on our DiSSCover platform! These resources are now live and can be referenced through their DOIs (Digital…
Getting Started with Digital Specimen DOIs: Unlocking the Power of Persistent, Citable Data
In biodiversity and environmental sciences, access to trusted, persistent, and citable data is key to accelerating research and discovery. That’s where Digital Specimen DOIs come in—a foundational tool for connecting your research to verifiable specimen data. Darwin Core supports them through a new term called “digitalSpecimenID” and Pensoft supports them in their ARPHA journal system.…
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Our Technical Team
The members of our technical team are all different, with diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise to bring to the design of DiSSCo.
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