Welcome to DiSSCoTech
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 Data Types
Our data types are formed around the basic concept of a Digital Specimen, being a digital representation on the Internet of a physical object in a natural science collection.
Our most recent blog posts on technical design of the DiSSCo infrastructure
Natural Science Identifiers & CETAF Stable Identifiers
The DiSSCo Technical Team gets asked a lot about Natural Science Identifiers (NSId). What are they? Why do we need them in addition to CETAF Stable Identifiers? Are they just for DiSSCo/Europe or are they global? In this post we answer those questions. Q1. What is a Natural Science Identifier (NSId)? A Natural Science IdentifierContinue reading “Natural Science Identifiers & CETAF Stable Identifiers”
Importance of FAIR data mobilization for taxonomic research
As the world is dealing with the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 a great deal of effort has been focusing on data sharing, linking and open science in general. For instance the community around taxonomic research (see Joint CETAF-DiSSCo COVID-19 Task Force) is focusing on international collaborations to make use of data that can help us understand theContinue reading “Importance of FAIR data mobilization for taxonomic research”
Identifiers for our institutes – GRID and ROR
DiSSCo aims to describe relationships between specimen and e.g. the collections in which they are curated, the collection holding institute, contributors, contributions, funders and scholarly publications. All these objects need to be uniquely identified to be able to connect their information. To show the importance of connecting specimen with their institutes we can look atContinue reading “Identifiers for our institutes – GRID and ROR”
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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.
