Jennifer LeonardFREE DEST course on liberation of data
https://cetaf.org/dest/liberation-of-data-how-to-liberate-data-from-publications-and-how-to-reuse-it/
Registration deadline is on 30th September.
#FAIR #openaccess #CETAF #Dissco
collections at EBD-CSICVery interesting workshop on the implementation of #ELViS the European Loans and Visits Systems- thank you Maxime
A better integration of and easier access to European Natural History Collections will benefit everyone
try it out! https://elvis.dissco.eu/en
#DiSSCo #MNHN #NaturalHistoryMuseum
A better integration of and easier access to European Natural History Collections will benefit everyone
try it out! https://elvis.dissco.eu/en
#DiSSCo #MNHN #NaturalHistoryMuseum
RIO Journal🆕 Latest addition to the #DiSSCo collection presents a full cost analysis of #DiSSCo: a distributed #research #infrastructure characterised by its decentralisation.
To do this, the team developed a cost calculation methodology.
Project Report: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.11.e147364
DiSSCo RI: the Cost Book for DiSSCo
The European Research Infrastructure DiSSCo (Distributed System of Scientific Collections) aims to digitally unify all European natural science assets, to ensure that collection data are easily findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). 170 institutions across more than 23 countries are involved in this ambitious objective of transforming a fragmented landscape of collections into an integrated knowledge base, enabling researchers to use and interconnect different collections.Research Infrastructure (hereinafter referred as to RI) cost calculation can be multifaceted and complex. DiSSCo is both a central team and a coordinated network responsible for supplying the infrastructure’s services. The RI linked costs are spread all over Europe and connect thousands of people. As the extended DiSSCo perimeter encompasses a wide range of services - from physical access, to digitisation on demand and consulting services - distributed amongst a great number of partners, cost information is spread across centralised and decentralised areas.The following article outlines the first “centralised” cost calculation exercise for DiSSCo and concludes that the DiSSCo Central Hub office would need a minimum annual budget of 1.4 million euros to be operational. This would not change between the construction and the operation phases. Furthermore, the DiSSCo Central Hub IT team would need a budget of 2.2 million euros to finalise all IT systems under the construction phase (if the construction phase lasts two years, it would cost around 1.1 million euros per year) in order to develop the digital services that will facilitate access to NSC data. The annual cost to operate these services would be around 1.2 million euros per year. This budget will evolve according to funding opportunities, the enlargement of the membership and the implementation of a business model open to new sources of income. As is often the case, research infrastructures grow over time and the more DiSSCo becomes known and recognised, the more it will attract users and the more its budget will increase.In order to calculate the RI linked costs, which are spread all over Europe, we developed a cost calculation methodology that has been distributed amongst all the 170 DiSSCo partner institutions. Twenty-seven institutions responded to the exercise. This allows for a first shared understanding on how to calculate DiSSCo related costs. It also provides the first figures on a cost-per-hour or a cost-per-service basis and it opens the door for the pricing of DiSSCo services. Finally, such a methodology also aims at guaranteeing a fair service pricing, based on the same principles and variables.
Luís de Sousa#DISSCO is one of the most ambitious projects ever to attempt fulfilling the vision of #LinkedData. Seems set to unlock unprecedented #Research opportunities on natural physical collections.
🤔 Are you closely following our content? If you do, you have noticed #EOSCFuture, #DiSSCo, #Ecostack, ParAqua #COSTAction & many other #scientific #projects increasingly #publishing various outputs in their own collections at #RIOJournal. Check out what makes our publishing solution so unique & valued:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6W32P_sVGc&ab_channel=PensoftPublishers
#openscience #openresearch #scholarlypublishing #journals #euprojects #horizoneurope #horizoneu
Project-branded collections in RIO Journal
John Jacksonthe Natural History Museum is part of the European #DiSSCo initiative: linking digitised natural science collections to create a large scientific infrastructure. An essential part of this is to link UK natural science collections in museums and other partners as DiSSCo_UK. We have created a video as an introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPM7_nwhfp0
Harnessing the power of natural science collections | Natural History Museum
Gino Brignoli#VinceSmith from #NHMLondon speaks about the values of UK specimen collections as environmental data stores through digitisation #DiSSCo #NBNconf22