DiSSCo Demo VI 10-09-2025

DiSSCo demos are back! It has been a while, and the team has gone through some changes, but that didn’t mean that development has halted. In fact, DiSSCo has hit an impressive milestone of over 5 million DOI’s minted. In additional to filling our production environment, we have some new and existing features to present.Continue reading “DiSSCo Demo VI 10-09-2025”

Five million digital specimens and images in DiSSCo: millions more to come

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”

Getting Started with Digital Specimen DOIs: Unlocking the Power of Persistent, Citable Data

In biodiversity and environmental sciences, access to trusted, persistent, and citable data is key to accelerating research and discovery. That’s where Digital Specimen DOIs come in—a foundational tool for connecting your research to verifiable specimen data. Darwin Core supports them through a new term called “digitalSpecimenID” and Pensoft supports them in their ARPHA journal system.Continue reading “Getting Started with Digital Specimen DOIs: Unlocking the Power of Persistent, Citable Data”

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”