DiSSCo Labs

Research Infrastructure Dashboard
A milestone from ICEDIG.
The data visualised in this dashboard is representative sample of 35 Research Infrastructures and platforms that bear some relation to DiSSCo.

Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI)
This will be implemented as a pilot in the SYNTHESYS+ project to provide authentication (identification of a user) and authorisation (level of access for a user) that will be used by various DiSSCo e-services.

DiSSCo Collections Dashboard
The Collections Dashboard contains data pertaining to the natural science collections of participating institutions across Europe. Page one shows the approximate size of collections per discipline for 89 institutes who participated in an initial DiSSCo survey, and page two displays the national contributions to the European collection.

DiSSCo Form Application
The Form Application is a simple web application that allows users to handle Google or SurveyMonkey forms for DiSSCo related surveys. It offers two form-handling functionalities. Firstly, the option to add a special select field to a form containing all the organizations who participate in the project. Secondly, the option to export form responses and automatically save them in the DiSSCo database for future usage. The two methods correspond to each other. When exporting responses, the service will look for the inserted organizational field to link a response to an organization by ROR identifier. View manual

Standards: Technical specifications to support the technical infrastructure

MIDS (Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen): Inspired by the idea of ‘minimum information standards’ adopted in other areas of biology we name this proposed TDWG standard as ‘Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen’ (MIDS) – the topic of the present task group. This harmonizing framework includes making the data publicly available because pen access policies in countries around the world require that digital data should be findable and accessible, even at the lowest level of available digitized information.

CD (Collection Descriptions): CD plans to support first, the development of a standard for sharing metadata about collection objects in scientific collections while planning to develop the standard so that it can be expanded to other types of collections (e.g. sea water collections) later.

openDS (open Digital Specimen): openDS is a specification of Digital Specimen and other related object type definitions essential to mass digitization of natural science collections and their digital use in a new generation of infrastructure and applications. For the principal digital object types corresponding to major categories of collections and specimens’ data, openDS defines the structure and content of each object type, and the operations that can act upon them.