On March 18, 2021 a new deployment of ELViS (European Loans and Visits System) became available. ELViS 1.0.0 is currently being used to facilitate the 3rd Transnational Access call for SYNTHESYS+ (to fund short-term research visits to consortium institutions) and the 2nd Virtual Access call (to fund digitisation-on-demand requests). The current version of ELViS isContinue reading “ELViS 1.0.0 is here: An important milestone for DiSSCo”
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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”
Our First Blog Post
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” This is the first post in the new “DiSSCo Tech” blog. We’re just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notifiedContinue reading “Our First Blog Post”
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