[Gbif-europe] Fwd: GBIF and ESFRI proposal for collections

[Wouter Addink]

Dear Anne-Sophie, fellow  EU Node managers.

Prior to GB23 I can already supply you with some information on this
activity. Since the structure for the Technical Design text has just been
discussed with Donald earlier this week, I presume that he will be able to
provide more details on the technical vision and variety of services of
DiSSCo during the GB23.

The proposal in the making to put the European natural science collections
on the 2017 ESFRI roadmap now has a name: DiSSCo (Distributed System of
Scientific Collections). It is the first step to become a European research
infrastructure.  The proposal is put together by a coordination team, being
Dimitris Koureas (NHM), Ana Casino (CETAF) and myself (Naturalis) with help
of many others.

The largest natural science musea in Europe (from FR, BE, NL, DE, UK, DK)
are investing money and hours in this activity and the network of
participating countries is currently comprised of 18 European member states
and associated countries. In these countries national taskforces (NTFs) are
being formed, that have a NTF representative for the country. CETAF plays a
major role in coordinating this.

About 20 people from the NTFs and GBIF have contributed text for the
Science Case, which is under construction and will be reviewed end of
November by Rod Page, Peter Fletcher, Tom Gilbert, Carsten Rahbek, Wouter
Los, Peter Fletcher and Koos Biesmeijer.

DiSSCo has been presented at ICRI earlier this month to ESFRI delegates and
other stakeholders by a team of 7 people with a booth, a side event and it
was also presented  briefly in a plenary session by Christoph Hauser. The
submission deadline will be August 31 2017. To be eligible, prior to
submission there has to be some political and financial support from
countries. Greece is already politically supporting and France is very
close to financially supporting. Several other countries are also working
on achieving financial support.

In the research infrastructures landscape, DiSSCo will occupy a
well-defined space, clearly linked to adjacent (related) initiatives, like
LIFEWATCH, EPOS, E-RIHS and ELIXIR.  For the Lifewatch services it will be
a very welcome content providing RI. DiSSCo will also link existing ESFRI
projects and landmarks to domain infrastructures, including GBIF and
Catalogue of Life.

When DiSSCo is on the ESFRI roadmap, a six year preparatory and
implementation phase will follow to become operational in 2024. Pillars for
development will be: 1.) Digitising and mobilising content from Collections
through open access, comprehensive tools and innovative services, 2.)
Harmonising data policies, processes and workflows, 3.) Maximising the use
of expertise, enhancing skills and engaging communities.

A governance structure for the RI has not yet been discussed. A RI will
require a centralized coordination body to achieve a coordinated effort.
Such a body may negotiate with industry on behalf of all partners for
tooling, technical solutions for digitalisation, participating in projects
etc. It may prioritize digitisation and data mobilisation effords in Europe
rather than by individual institutions, it may provide a central helpdesk
and training center. And so on.

The proposal under development is creating a lot of spin-off, which makes
the development already exciting: A new DEDDI proposal will be created as
design study for DiSSCo (lead: Hannu Saarenmaa), A COST proposal will be
made, Naturalis together with the Dutch GBIF node and other partners have
received a grant to inventory use cases and connect researchers from many
scientific disciplines in NL with DiSSCo, NTFs in other countries are
trying to get similar grants, RDA-Europe wants to invest in a pilot, etc.

We are currently setting up a website to provide more information (dissco.eu).
Hopefully the site will have some more info by the GB23 meeting.

Several of the EU GBIF nodes are also in the DiSSCo NTFs, but it would be
worth discussing how to engage the GBIF nodes more.

Kind regards,
Wouter Addink

On 18 October 2016 at 10:26, archambeau <archambeau at gbif.fr> wrote:

> Dear EU Node managers,
>
> Just a remember about Donald's message. I think that it would be nice to
> have a discussion around this subject during the GB23 with Donald and all
> the EU people who will be able to join this meeting.
> And of course, I would be pleased to get an update on this subject from
> all of you but if you already communicated with Donald, I suppose he will
> give us the last updates.
>
> Best regards
> Anne-Sophie
>
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: GBIF and ESFRI proposal for collections
> Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 14:02:51 +0000
> From: Donald Hobern <dhobern at gbif.org>
> To: "dhobern at gmail.com" <dhobern at gmail.com>
>
>
>
> Dear European GBIF representative,
>
> I would like to give you all a brief update on an activity within Europe
> for which GBIF has been asked to play a key role in the design phase.
> Following a series of meetings involving many European collections, a
> proposal is under development to develop the European collections
> network as an ESFRI
> (http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=esfri [1])
> infrastructure. Developing and funding such a proposal would be a large
> multi-year undertaking, but could lead to a more sustainable long-term
> place for the collections as a key digitally-enabled resource.
>
> The GBIF Secretariat has been asked (and has been approved by the GBIF
> Executive Committee) to assist with development of the Technical Design
> for such a proposal. This will take place over the coming months. In the
> meantime, I wanted you all to be aware of this activity. I have prepared
> a brief presentation to facilitate an upcoming discussion on what this
> infrastructure may involve and I have attached it here for your
> information. I hope it is adequate to give an indication of what I
> believe is under consideration - some of you may recognise the ideas
> from the ELODINS proposal a year or so ago.
>
> Please feel free to communicate with me if you have any questions. I
> will try to keep you informed as this proceeds.
>
> Very best wishes,
>
> Donald
>
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Wouter Addink

DiSSCo coordination team member
ICT Systems Officer Species 2000

Phone: +31 (0)71-751 9364
Address: P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Email: wouter.addink at naturalis.nl
Web: www.naturalis.nl I www.catalogueoflife.org
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