Distributed System of Scientific Collections
@dissco.bsky.social
DiSSCo is a new world-class Research Infrastructure for Natural Science Collections. It aims to create a new business model for one European collection that digitally unifies all European natural science assets under common access, policies and practices.
The pre-registration period for specimen datasets to join @dissco.bsky.social is almost done (Oct 31) but here is a funny fact: if you have a #DarwinCore archive already, it'll take you 15 minutes to fill in the form. We'll create only 20M #DOIs in 2025 so hurry! dissco.eu/ds-enrollment/
October 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The pre-registration period for specimen datasets to join @dissco.bsky.social is almost done (Oct 31) but here is a funny fact: if you have a #DarwinCore archive already, it'll take you 15 minutes to fill in the form. We'll create only 20M #DOIs in 2025 so hurry! dissco.eu/ds-enrollment/
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#LivingData2025 Sam Leeflang begins the session on openDS: Data model for global implementation of open #DigitalSpecimen & the status of specimen digitization @dissco.bsky.social 🧪🌏 #biodiversity #FAIRdata
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
#LivingData2025 Sam Leeflang begins the session on openDS: Data model for global implementation of open #DigitalSpecimen & the status of specimen digitization @dissco.bsky.social 🧪🌏 #biodiversity #FAIRdata
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"Towards a Common Language for Digital Specimens: Exploring the openDS Data Model". importance of links and relationships. #openDS #DigitalSpecimen @dissco.bsky.social 🧪🌏
October 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Towards a Common Language for Digital Specimens: Exploring the openDS Data Model". importance of links and relationships. #openDS #DigitalSpecimen @dissco.bsky.social 🧪🌏
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#LivingData2025 I am talking about (virtually) "Building and Serving FAIR Terms and Vocabularies for open Digital Specimen" part of "Data model for global implementation of open Digital Specimen & the status of specimen digitization" #FAIRdata 🧪🌏 @dissco.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
#LivingData2025 I am talking about (virtually) "Building and Serving FAIR Terms and Vocabularies for open Digital Specimen" part of "Data model for global implementation of open Digital Specimen & the status of specimen digitization" #FAIRdata 🧪🌏 @dissco.bsky.social
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Elspeth Haston talking about MIDS: Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen
"What is the status of global digitisation? MIDS as an institutional & global digitisation standard" #LivingData2025 🧪🌏
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"What is the status of global digitisation? MIDS as an institutional & global digitisation standard" #LivingData2025 🧪🌏
@dissco.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Elspeth Haston talking about MIDS: Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen
"What is the status of global digitisation? MIDS as an institutional & global digitisation standard" #LivingData2025 🧪🌏
@dissco.bsky.social
"What is the status of global digitisation? MIDS as an institutional & global digitisation standard" #LivingData2025 🧪🌏
@dissco.bsky.social
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Mathias Dillen from Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium talking about "MIDS in practice": Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen www.tdwg.org/community/cd... @dissco.bsky.social @tdwg.org #LivingData2025. 🧪🌏
October 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Mathias Dillen from Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium talking about "MIDS in practice": Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen www.tdwg.org/community/cd... @dissco.bsky.social @tdwg.org #LivingData2025. 🧪🌏
Our Wouter Addink at #LivingData2025 presenting the roadmap for @dissco.bsky.social's #digitalspecimen enrollment. His message: Join the future of #naturalhistory collections by getting onboard with DiSSCo. Deadline getting close! Free pre-registration 👉 dissco.eu/ds-enrollment/
October 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Our Wouter Addink at #LivingData2025 presenting the roadmap for @dissco.bsky.social's #digitalspecimen enrollment. His message: Join the future of #naturalhistory collections by getting onboard with DiSSCo. Deadline getting close! Free pre-registration 👉 dissco.eu/ds-enrollment/
The #LivingData2025 conference starts tomorrow and @dissco.bsky.social will be there! See below a summary of the DiSSCo-related sessions. More info: www.livingdata2025.com #biodiversity #bioinformatics #FAIRdata @disscoflanders.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The #LivingData2025 conference starts tomorrow and @dissco.bsky.social will be there! See below a summary of the DiSSCo-related sessions. More info: www.livingdata2025.com #biodiversity #bioinformatics #FAIRdata @disscoflanders.bsky.social
The pre-registration period for biological/geological specimen datasets to join the @dissco.bsky.social #DigitalSpecimen data infrastructure is open! Deadline for the 1st selection process: Oct 31st. Hurry! We will create only 20M #DOIs in 2025. Know more: www.dissco.eu/ds-enrollment/
September 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The pre-registration period for biological/geological specimen datasets to join the @dissco.bsky.social #DigitalSpecimen data infrastructure is open! Deadline for the 1st selection process: Oct 31st. Hurry! We will create only 20M #DOIs in 2025. Know more: www.dissco.eu/ds-enrollment/
We wouldn't have it any other way! @dissco.bsky.social
participates in the OSCA (Open #ScientificCollections #Austria) Perspectives talks, hosted by our partners @nhmwien.bsky.social 👉https://osca.science/osca-veranstaltung-11-12-09-2025/ @disscoflanders.bsky.social @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org
participates in the OSCA (Open #ScientificCollections #Austria) Perspectives talks, hosted by our partners @nhmwien.bsky.social 👉https://osca.science/osca-veranstaltung-11-12-09-2025/ @disscoflanders.bsky.social @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org
September 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
We wouldn't have it any other way! @dissco.bsky.social
participates in the OSCA (Open #ScientificCollections #Austria) Perspectives talks, hosted by our partners @nhmwien.bsky.social 👉https://osca.science/osca-veranstaltung-11-12-09-2025/ @disscoflanders.bsky.social @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org
participates in the OSCA (Open #ScientificCollections #Austria) Perspectives talks, hosted by our partners @nhmwien.bsky.social 👉https://osca.science/osca-veranstaltung-11-12-09-2025/ @disscoflanders.bsky.social @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org
Proud to announce a big milestone: over 5M digital specimens and digital media objects are now available in
@dissco.bsky.social! You can either find out more about this 👉 dissco.eu/five-million... or go see them right now on our DiSSCover platform! 👉 disscover.dissco.eu Congrats, all!
@dissco.bsky.social! You can either find out more about this 👉 dissco.eu/five-million... or go see them right now on our DiSSCover platform! 👉 disscover.dissco.eu Congrats, all!
Five million digital specimens and images in DiSSCo: millions more to come - DiSSCo
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August 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Proud to announce a big milestone: over 5M digital specimens and digital media objects are now available in
@dissco.bsky.social! You can either find out more about this 👉 dissco.eu/five-million... or go see them right now on our DiSSCover platform! 👉 disscover.dissco.eu Congrats, all!
@dissco.bsky.social! You can either find out more about this 👉 dissco.eu/five-million... or go see them right now on our DiSSCover platform! 👉 disscover.dissco.eu Congrats, all!
Last June 26, our colleagues from @mnhn.fr conducted an online workshop on one of the flagship services of @dissco.bsky.social, the European Loans and Visits System, #ELViS. Watch the recording! 👉 youtu.be/hf49JuoCfFU Take a look! @horizoneu.bsky.social @disscoflanders.bsky.social #naturalshistory
Get to know the European Loans and Visits System for Natural History Collections (by DiSSCo)
YouTube video by DiSSCo RI
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July 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Last June 26, our colleagues from @mnhn.fr conducted an online workshop on one of the flagship services of @dissco.bsky.social, the European Loans and Visits System, #ELViS. Watch the recording! 👉 youtu.be/hf49JuoCfFU Take a look! @horizoneu.bsky.social @disscoflanders.bsky.social #naturalshistory
Check this out: SpLAT, @dissco.bsky.social's Specimen Label Automatic Transcription service, uses #AI to capture text from labels of #naturalhistory specimens. The text is formatted and added to the #DigitalSpecimen as an annotation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1gA... @horizoneu.bsky.social
Get to know SpLAT (Specimen Label Automatic Transcription Service) by DiSSCo
YouTube video by DiSSCo RI
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June 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Check this out: SpLAT, @dissco.bsky.social's Specimen Label Automatic Transcription service, uses #AI to capture text from labels of #naturalhistory specimens. The text is formatted and added to the #DigitalSpecimen as an annotation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1gA... @horizoneu.bsky.social
Take a look at @dissco.bsky.social latest publication: "Extraction of Quantitative Specimen Data using Machine Learning as a Service in the DiSSCo Research Infrastructure" 👉 preprints.arphahub.com/articles.php...
June 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Take a look at @dissco.bsky.social latest publication: "Extraction of Quantitative Specimen Data using Machine Learning as a Service in the DiSSCo Research Infrastructure" 👉 preprints.arphahub.com/articles.php...
As the private sector's dependence on biodiversity continues to grow, so does the need to invest in #biodiversity #data. Interesting article with participation of Veronika Johansson (manager of our Swedish node): doi.org/10.32942/X27... @horizoneu.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
As the private sector's dependence on biodiversity continues to grow, so does the need to invest in #biodiversity #data. Interesting article with participation of Veronika Johansson (manager of our Swedish node): doi.org/10.32942/X27... @horizoneu.bsky.social
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See paper👇Physical evidence in museums are crucial as definitive reference points for species identification. Highly relevant for 'Digital Extended Specimen' work across projects @dissco.bsky.social @iboleurope.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social @arisenl.bsky.social 🧪🌏
For about 2y, colleagues from @leibnizlib.bsky.social @sgn.one @univie.ac.at @mncn-csic.bsky.social met to discuss how to contribute to #biodiversity #taxonomy research by sequencing #genomes of type natural history #collection specimens. The result is published at @systbiol.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
See paper👇Physical evidence in museums are crucial as definitive reference points for species identification. Highly relevant for 'Digital Extended Specimen' work across projects @dissco.bsky.social @iboleurope.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social @arisenl.bsky.social 🧪🌏
The last of BioDT's webinars on 14 May will explore the essential role of Research Infrastructures (#RIs) in powering #biodiversity #DigitalTwins: biodt.eu/events/data-... Join us! @horizoneu.bsky.social #DigitalSpecimen #FAIRdata #machinelearning
May 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The last of BioDT's webinars on 14 May will explore the essential role of Research Infrastructures (#RIs) in powering #biodiversity #DigitalTwins: biodt.eu/events/data-... Join us! @horizoneu.bsky.social #DigitalSpecimen #FAIRdata #machinelearning
The 2nd meeting of @dissco.bsky.social Interim Council marked the end of two days dedicated to explaining the developments and future plans of #DiSSCoRI. Thank you all participants for the great effort you put into our endeavor. It really is inspiring @horizoneu.bsky.social #biodiversity #ESFRI
April 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The 2nd meeting of @dissco.bsky.social Interim Council marked the end of two days dedicated to explaining the developments and future plans of #DiSSCoRI. Thank you all participants for the great effort you put into our endeavor. It really is inspiring @horizoneu.bsky.social #biodiversity #ESFRI
Live♨️from @dissco.bsky.social 7th interim General Assembly: The last stretch of our iGA7 goes for financial planning until #DiSSCo has reached the #ERIC legal status, and for final notes from DiSSCo's iGA chair Edwing van Huis. Interesting times lie ahead! Thanks all! @horizoneu.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Live♨️from @dissco.bsky.social 7th interim General Assembly: The last stretch of our iGA7 goes for financial planning until #DiSSCo has reached the #ERIC legal status, and for final notes from DiSSCo's iGA chair Edwing van Huis. Interesting times lie ahead! Thanks all! @horizoneu.bsky.social
Live♨️from @dissco.bsky.social iGA7: The members of the DiSSCo coordination and support office give an overview of their work supporting DiSSCo partners during 2024, and future plans for 2025. They cover policy, engagement, technical, and budget aspects of DiSSCo. @horizoneu.bsky.social #ESFRI #ERIC
April 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Live♨️from @dissco.bsky.social iGA7: The members of the DiSSCo coordination and support office give an overview of their work supporting DiSSCo partners during 2024, and future plans for 2025. They cover policy, engagement, technical, and budget aspects of DiSSCo. @horizoneu.bsky.social #ESFRI #ERIC
Live♨️from @dissco.bsky.social iGA7: The technical fireworks begin! Sam Leeflang (@naturalis.bsky.social) explains the #DiSSCo platform MVP (more info here: dissco.pageflow.io/dissco-mvp-i...). Demos of #ELViS (elvis.dissco.eu) and #DiSSCover (disscover.dissco.eu) will follow. @horizoneu.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Live♨️from @dissco.bsky.social iGA7: The technical fireworks begin! Sam Leeflang (@naturalis.bsky.social) explains the #DiSSCo platform MVP (more info here: dissco.pageflow.io/dissco-mvp-i...). Demos of #ELViS (elvis.dissco.eu) and #DiSSCover (disscover.dissco.eu) will follow. @horizoneu.bsky.social
Live♨️from @dissco.bsky.social 7th interim General Assembly: Service provision is crucial for #DiSSCo, but we must regulate the dialogue between DiSSCo #ERIC and individual service providers from our community. Our general framework agreement aims to do the trick @horizoneu.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Live♨️from @dissco.bsky.social 7th interim General Assembly: Service provision is crucial for #DiSSCo, but we must regulate the dialogue between DiSSCo #ERIC and individual service providers from our community. Our general framework agreement aims to do the trick @horizoneu.bsky.social
Live♨️from @dissco.bsky.social 7th interim General Assembly: Some recommendations on procurement policy by Stefaan Pijls (Meise Botanic Garden): use a centralised procurement service when acquisition is in function of DiSSCo #ERIC, and rely on our community for provision before going to 3rd parties.
April 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Live♨️from @dissco.bsky.social 7th interim General Assembly: Some recommendations on procurement policy by Stefaan Pijls (Meise Botanic Garden): use a centralised procurement service when acquisition is in function of DiSSCo #ERIC, and rely on our community for provision before going to 3rd parties.
Welcome to @dissco.bsky.social 7th interim General Assembly at @naturalis.bsky.social! Ana de Castro, chair of our Interim Council, and Jennifa Dorleijn, representing the #Dutchgovernment, give an update on the request to the #EuropeanCommission for setting up DiSSCo #ERIC. @horizoneu.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Welcome to @dissco.bsky.social 7th interim General Assembly at @naturalis.bsky.social! Ana de Castro, chair of our Interim Council, and Jennifa Dorleijn, representing the #Dutchgovernment, give an update on the request to the #EuropeanCommission for setting up DiSSCo #ERIC. @horizoneu.bsky.social
Live♨️from @dissco.bsky.social Transition wrap-up: Time to close the event, but we are not done yet. We still have some more months of work ahead. Tomorrow we will celebrate our interim General Assembly (the 7th!) and the 2nd meeting of our Interim Council (info: www.dissco.eu/dissco/gover...)
April 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Live♨️from @dissco.bsky.social Transition wrap-up: Time to close the event, but we are not done yet. We still have some more months of work ahead. Tomorrow we will celebrate our interim General Assembly (the 7th!) and the 2nd meeting of our Interim Council (info: www.dissco.eu/dissco/gover...)