Monday 27 January 2025
Hosted by our colleagues from the University of Tartu from 21-22 January 2025, DiSSCo’s latest technical workshop is titled "DiSSCo Data Management Plan for Machine Actionability and Standards for Taxon Hypotheses". Day 1 focused on DiSSCo’s Data Management Plan for machine actionability. The talk provided an overview and discussion of DiSSCo Transition deliverable D3.3, followed by a demonstration of DMP implementation on the PlutoF platform. Day 2 of the DiSSCo Transition workshop on DiSSCo’s DMP and Standards for Taxon Hypotheses focused on the standards aimed to provide a better understanding of the Taxon Concept Schema - or TCS - and the significant modifications introduced by the TCS 2 Task Group (Klazenga and Liljeblad, 2024). The workshop explored how taxonomic circumscriptions can be expressed in TCS 2, focusing on how it supports the characterisation and practical application of DNA-based THs.
More info: https://www.dissco.eu/dissco-transition-dmp-standards-taxon-hypotheses/
Thursday 12 December 2024
The CNR-ISMAR DiSSCo WG developed this manual as part of Activity 6.6 National network of the aquatic science collection in the Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System -ITINERIS Project. This guideline suggests a procedure for managing and harmonising the metadata associated with the physical specimens of the aquatic natural collections preserved at the Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR). Natural collections are archives containing a large amount of data from various research fields, such as zoology, botany, ecology, biogeography, physiology, geology, paleontology, etc. The metadata harmonisation of physical samples, following international reference standards, and creating a digital sample will make them usable for national and international initiatives, also contributing to the increase of the DiSSCo (Distributed System of Scientific Collections, www.dissco.eu) Italian community in the natural science collections management
More info: https://doi.org/10.26383/CNR-ISMAR.2024.10
Monday 14 October 2024
DiSSCo has just made public its FAIR Research Data Management Playbook, designed as a template to help organizations implement best practices in managing research data following the FAIR principles. The playbook is a practical guide to make research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) across various stages of the data lifecycle. The playbook provides a flexible structure that you can adapt to your organization’s specific data management needs. It’s not a strict policy document but a living resource that can evolve with your projects, data types, and technologies.
More info: https://dissco.github.io/fairplaybook/
