Soulaine Theocharides

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 aboutContinue reading “A DiSSCo Dev’s experience at the Open Source Developer’s European Meeting”

DiSSCo Demo V 23-10-2024

As the DiSSCo Transition Project (DTP) is in full swing, the DiSSCo Development team will be giving regular (bi-monthly) updates on the progress. This progress will mainly focus on Task 3.1 – Further develop the piloted Digital Specimen Architecture (DSarch) into a Minimum Valuable Product (MVP). However, as the development team is also involved inContinue reading “DiSSCo Demo V 23-10-2024”

DiSSCo PID Infrastructure Gets an Upgrade: Introducing our (test) DOI Infrastructure!

Bringing together collections data from hundreds of sources requires sophisticated coordination. How do we track provenance, annotate, and reference all these Digital Specimens? Using globally resolvable Persistent Identifiers, or PIDs. We’ve discussed our PID infrastructure before on this blog. In this blog post, we will describe an exciting new update: the potential to upgrade ourContinue reading “DiSSCo PID Infrastructure Gets an Upgrade: Introducing our (test) DOI Infrastructure!”

Get Involved in Ensuring Accessibility and Machine Actionability for Natural History Collections: FDO Profiles in DiSSCo

In the realm of biodiversity and geoscience research, the digitization of natural history collections has revolutionized the way we study and understand our planet’s rich biological and geological heritage. However, as the volume of digitization and other valuable data resources continues to grow, ensuring their long-term accessibility and interoperability becomes increasingly challenging. This is whereContinue reading “Get Involved in Ensuring Accessibility and Machine Actionability for Natural History Collections: FDO Profiles in DiSSCo”