Publication Date:
2024-02-01
Description:
The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a pan-European Research
\nInfrastructure (RI) initiative. DiSSCo aims to bring together natural science collections from
\n175 museums, botanical gardens, universities and research institutes across 23 countries
\nin a distributed infrastructure that makes these collections physically and digitally open and
\naccessible for all forms of research and innovation. DiSSCo RI entered the ESFRI
\nroadmap in 2018 and successfully concluded its Preparatory Phase in early 2023. The RI
\nis now transitioning towards the constitution of its legal entity (an ERIC) and the start of its
\nscaled-up construction (implementation) programme. This publication is an abridged
\nversion of the successful grant proposal for the DiSSCo Transition Project which has the
\ngoal of ensuring the seamless transition of the DiSSCo RI from its Preparatory Phase to
\nthe Construction Phase (expected to start in 2025). In this transition period, the Project will
\naddress five objectives building on the outcomes of the Preparatory Phase project:
\n1) Advance the DiSSCo ERIC process and complete its policy framework, ensuring the
\nsmooth early-phase Implementation of DISSCo;
\n2) Engage & support DiSSCo National Nodes to strengthen national commitments;
\n3) Advance the development of core e-services to avoid the accumulation of technical debt
\nbefore the start of the Implementation Phase;
\n4) Continue international collaboration on standards & best practices needed for the
\nDiSSCo service provision; and
\n5) Continue supporting DiSSCo RI interim governance bodies and transition them to the
\nDiSSCo ERIC formal governance.
\nThe Project\xe2\x80\x99s impact will be measured against the increase in the RI\'s overall
\nImplementation Readiness Level (IRL). More specifically, we will monitor its impact towards
\nreaching the required level of maturity in four of the five dimensions of the IRL that can
\nbenefit from further developments. These include the organisational, financial,
\ntechnological and data readiness levels.
Keywords:
natural science collections
;
natural history collections
;
research infrastructure
;
global
;
natural science
;
digitisation
;
data standards
;
Distributed System of Scientific Collections
;
DiSSCo
;
Digital Specimen Architecture
;
FAIR Data Ecosystem
;
FAIR digital objects
Repository Name:
National Museum of Natural History, Netherlands
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Format:
application/pdf
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