A network of Natural Science Collections for biodiversity conservation, agri-food, and environmental sustainability.
Learn MoreDiSSCo-ITINERIS in numbers
DiSSCo-ITINERIS is a network of Natural Science Collections (NSC) hosted at natural history museums, botanical gardens, and research institutes across Italy aimed at building one of the nodes of the European Research Infrastructure DiSSCo (Distributed System of Scientific Collections - www.dissco.eu). The ultimate goal is to digitally integrate and unify all European natural science collections, sharing common access, curation, policies, and practices across countries and providing specimens' data and metadata complying with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable).
DiSSCo-ITINERIS is part of the Next Generation EU (PNRR) project ITINERIS ("Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System", project no. IR0000032 - itineris.cnr.it), aimed at coordinating and integrating the Italian nodes of 22 European Research Infrastructures (RI).
Images of the DiSSCo-ITINERIS meeting recently held in Florence on Nov 14, 2024.
More
Below an example of the distribution of the specimens' collecting sites from the CNR-IBBR publisher is displayed using the GBIF Map APIs. Hexagon color is proportional to the number of collecting sites at each point on the map (yellow: low; orange: high). Similar distribution maps are available for most DiSSCo-ITINERIS datasets.
(Double-click on the below map to enlarge it).