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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
Maturing DiSSCover to become a future-proof platform
Happy fourth birthday, DiSSCover! Four years ago, DiSSCover was born with an ambitious mission: to play an active role in driving a digital revolution in collections research by digitising European specimen collections and working towards enriched digital specimen data through expert annotations. The application started out as a Proof of Concept, or in other words,…
A DiSSCo Dev’s experience at the Open Source Developer’s European Meeting
“These are the only cookies you should ever accept” said the mozilla employee, handing me a chocolate chip cookie. I had waited in line in the mild February Belgian drizzle for about 10 minutes for this prize– because who couldn’t say no to a cheeky freebie like that? I was in Brussels to talk about…
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.…
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