Authors: Sharif Islam, Wouter Addink, Soulaine Theocharides, and Sam Leeflang. We are proud to announce a major milestone: over five million digital specimens and digital media objects are now available in DiSSCo. You can see them right now on our DiSSCover platform! These resources are now live and can be referenced through their DOIs (DigitalContinue reading “Five million digital specimens and images in DiSSCo: millions more to come”
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openDS Public Review
openDS Public Review has been extended! We are announcing an extension of the openDS public review until September 10th 2024. Due to holidays and other commitments, such as TDWG 2024, several members of our community have indicated that an extension will be welcome. We have decided to extend the review period to give some additionalContinue reading “openDS Public Review”
Report from Davos World Biodiversity Forum 2024
The 3rd World Biodiversity Forum in Davos, Switzerland, brought together about 800 participants. The event covered diverse topics and discussions on the future of biodiversity, emphasising marine conservation, freshwater biodiversity, and climate change impacts. Discussions focused on data sharing, interdisciplinary approaches, and nature-based solutions to bridge global biodiversity monitoring gaps through trans-disciplinary practices and dataContinue reading “Report from Davos World Biodiversity Forum 2024”
The data model behind DiSSCo’s Annotation service
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”
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”
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?”
Identifiers and contextual data
Persistent identifiers, their links to other identifiers and various contextual data are essential components of the DiSSCo architectural design. Here is a brief example to demonstrate the importance of these identifiers, linking them and providing enough contextual information to perform operations on the digital specimen objects. The example here also highlights some of the challengesContinue reading “Identifiers and contextual data”
Roundup of recent news
A lot has happened since our last post here. So a roundup of recent news. Our very own Wouter Addink presented DiSSCo at the Chinese national biodiversity informatics congress. This is a great initiative to facilitate global conversations around data and infrastructures. Several members of the DiSSCo Technical Team and members of DiSSCo Prepare WP5Continue reading “Roundup of recent news”
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