DiSSCo envisions discovering the untapped value within vast natural science collections across Europe and aims to connect these collections to related datasets and new insights using the FAIR Digital Object (FDO) framework. A key milestone toward this vision is the development of various data models and services that can help annotate and publish digital specimenContinue reading “The data model behind DiSSCo’s Annotation service”
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Roundup of technical updates
Dear Readers, In this post, we would like to update you on some of the recent technical advancements that we have made. Our team has been working tirelessly on various aspects including PID infrastructure development, data modeling work, and both frontend and backend development of the DiSSCover interface. These updates have allowed us to enhanceContinue reading “Roundup of technical updates”
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”
Kunming – Montreal post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: What does it mean for biodiversity research infrastructures?
On Dec 19, after hours of negotiations and discussions, nations (except the U.S. and the Vatican) agreed to protect 30% of the planet for nature by 2030 (also known as the 30 x 30 agreement). The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework has been proclaimed both as a historic decision and also as a missed opportunity toContinue reading “Kunming – Montreal post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: What does it mean for biodiversity research infrastructures?”
Roundup of technical updates
Dear Readers, In this post, we share some of our recent updates. We have been super busy with various technical developments. Here are a few highlights: Upcoming conference presentations 📺 We will be at The Biodiversity Information Standard (TDWG) 2022! This year the annual conference will be a hybrid meeting, hosted in Sofia, Bulgaria. AfterContinue reading “Roundup of technical updates”
FAIR Digital Objects and Machine-Actionability
Why it matters more in the age of AI and Machine Learning One of the key concepts outlined in the 2016 FAIR principle paper is “machine-actionability”: ..the idea of being machine-actionable applies in two contexts—first, when referring to the contextual metadata surrounding a digital object (‘what is it?’), and second, when referring to the contentContinue reading “FAIR Digital Objects and Machine-Actionability”
Why Spreadsheets Matter?
A news story published on Aug 6, 2020, in The Verge had the following to say: “Sometimes it’s easier to rewrite genetics than update Excel“. The story was about a known problem where Excel by default converts gene names to dates . You can try this out at home with the gene symbol “MARCHF1” —Continue reading “Why Spreadsheets Matter?”
ELViS 1.0.0 is here: An important milestone for DiSSCo
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”
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”
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