DiSSCo e-Services to Serve Global Community Needs

DiSSCo (Distributed System of Scientific Collections) is a research infrastructure (RI) under development, which will provide services for the global community to support and enhance physical digital access natural history collections in Europe. These include training, support, documentation e-services. This talk focus on e-services give an overview current status, roadmap first results as introduction next talks session, some more detail standards work undertaken Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) enable them. The RI envisioned e-services, use novel FAIR Digital Object (FDO) serving specimens from European collections. integrated data analysis, enhanced interpretation, annotation curation visualisation. FDO enables specimen be (re-)connected with genomic, geographical, morphological, taxonomic environmental information through specimen, making them Extended Specimens. A large number user stories have been collected DiSSCo-linked projects ICEDIG, SYNTHESYS+ Prepare, guide e-Services build what functionality provide. are publicly available github repository. developed based prioritization provided by collection providers scientific community. variety mechanisms used collect input: surveys, workshops, roundtables workpackage meetings, feedback users that already using beta versions services. aims become operational 2026 but several being piloted or implemented. Experimental demonstrators Labs testing feedback. By connecting derived related way (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable Reusable), accelerate biodiversity discovery questions. has model also integrates PROV Ontology (PROV-O), allows capture activities improve visibility researcher contributions. vision towards high quality essential better limited experts available. To way, Europe needs one virtual collection. findable accessible soon it created like Specimen Data Refinery prior publication facility GBIF (Global Facility). requires new describing data. fill these gaps TDWG CD (Collection Descriptions) MIDS (Minimum about Specimen). brings data, standards, processes together serve