DiSSCo Prepare Project: Increasing the Implementation Readiness Levels of the European Research Infrastructure
Creators
- Koureas, Dimitrios1
- Livermore, Laurence2
- Alonso, Eva1
- Addink, Wouter1
- Alves, Maria Judite3
- Casino, Ana4
- Curral, Luís5
- Enghoff, Henrik6
- Guiraud, Michel7
- Hardy, Helen2
- Hoffmann, Jana8
- Landel, Salomé7
- Paleco, Carole9
- Petersen, Mareike8
- Scory, Serge9
- Smith, Vincent10
- Weiland, Claus11
- Wesche, Karsten12
- Woodburn, Matt2
- 1. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands|Distributed System of Scientific Collections - DiSSCo, Leiden, Netherlands
- 2. The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
- 3. Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- 4. Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities, Brussels, Belgium
- 5. Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- 6. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 7. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
- 8. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany
- 9. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
- 10. The Natural History Museum, London, London, United Kingdom
- 11. Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany|DiSSCo-D, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 12. Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Goerlitz, Goerlitz, Germany
Description
The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a new world-class Research Infrastructure (RI) for Natural Science Collections. The DiSSCo RI aims to create a new business model for one European collection that digitally unifies all European natural science assets under common access, curation, policies and practices that ensure that all the data is easily Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR principles). DiSSCo represents the largest ever formal agreement between natural history museums, botanic gardens and collection-holding institutions in the world.
DiSSCo entered the European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures in 2018 and launched its main preparatory phase project (DiSSCo Prepare) in 2020. DiSSCo Prepare is the primary vehicle through which DiSSCo reaches the overall maturity necessary for its construction and eventual operation. DiSSCo Prepare raises DiSSCo's implementation readiness level (IRL) across the five dimensions: technical, scientific, data, organisational and financial. Each dimension of implementation readiness is separately addressed by specific Work Packages (WP) with distinct targets, actions and tasks that will deliver DiSSCo's Construction Masterplan. This comprehensive and integrated Masterplan will be the product of the outputs of all of its content related tasks and will be the project's final output. It will serve as the blueprint for construction of the DiSSCo RI, including establishing it as a legal entity.
DiSSCo Prepare builds on the successful completion of DiSSCo's design study, ICEDIG and the outcomes of other DiSSCo-linked projects such as SYNTHESYS+ and MOBILISE.
This paper is an abridged version of the original DiSSCo Prepare grant proposal. It contains the overarching scientific case for DiSSCo Prepare, alongside a description of our major activities.
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