The Italian National Node of the European Research Infrastructure DiSSCO
“Promoting the digitization of Natural Science Collections (NSC) across Italy, emphasizing the biodiversity heritage preserved in the Italian NSC, and supporting their transformation into bio-digital resource centers.”
“Unlock the full potential of information derived from the Natural Science Collection as the foundation for scientific innovation and excellence in biodiversity, climate change, food security, health, bioeconomy, and other vital areas of societal interest.”
The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a novel Research Infrastructure (RI) for Natural Science Collections. It aims at creating a new business model for digitally unifying all European natural science assets, sharing common access, curation, policies and practices across countries while ensuring data compliance with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable data).
By mobilising and harmonising Collections data, DiSSCo provides a pivotal basis of knowledge at the scale and precision required to research, thus filling a significant gap in the value chain of European RIs.
As a final results, DiSSSCo is expected to make available all the information on 1,5 billion natural history specimens, involving 5,000 scientists working in 200+ institutions from 23 countries.
More information: www.dissco.eu.
(Courtesy: DiSSCo-ERIC, www.dissco.eu)
The mission of DiSSCo-IT is to create an Italian network of Natural Science Collections (NSCs) and enhancing the portfolio of services tailored to the needs of researchers, end-users, and stakeholders dealing with preserved biological and geological resources.
DiSSCo-IT will promote the digitization of NSC specimens across Italy, and will coordinate the efforts to include the Italian NSC in the European DiSSCo Research Infrastructure, with the aim of valorizing the Natural Science heritage preserved in Italian collections.
DiSSCo-IT aims at mobilizing the information from NSCs as the foundation for scientific innovation and excellence in biodiversity, climate change, food security, health, bioeconomy, and other relevant areas of societal interest.
The DiSSCo-ITINERIS website hosts the results of the three activities participating in the construction of the Italian node of European Research Infrastrcture DiSSCo-RI (Distributed System of Scientific Collections).
DiSSCo-ITINERIS (https://dissco-itineris.it) 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 (RIs).
ITINERIS (https://itineris.cnr.it) built the Italian Hub of RIs operating in the challenging fields of environment and environmental processes, providing access to data and services and supporting the Country to address current and future environmental challenges
More information: https://dissco-itineris.it.
The Italian node of the European DiSSCo Research Infrastructure
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Participating Institutions
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DiSSCo-IT Joint Research Unit
c/o Dept. of Bio-Agrifood Sciences (DiSBA)
National Research Council of Italy
Rome, Italy
info@dissco-it.it
This portal has been funded by the ITINERIS project (IR0000032 – ITINERIS, Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System (D.D. n. 130/2022 - CUP B53C22002150006) Funded by EU - Next Generation EU PNRR- Mission 4 “Education and Research” - Component 2: “From research to business” - Investment 3.1: “Fund for the realisation of an integrated system of research and innovation infrastructures”).
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