DiSSCo Flanders: Towards a collection management infrastructure for Flanders

Project: Research

Mergen, Patricia (Promotor)
Trekels, Maarten (Project coordinator)
Leliaert, Frederik (Participant)
Groom, Quentin J. (Participant)
Bogaerts, Ann (Participant)
De Smedt, Sofie (Participant)
Meeus, Sofie (Participant)
Dillen, Mathias (Participant)
Huybrechts, Pieter (Participant)
Engledow, Henry (Participant)
Tack, Wesley (Participant)
Dessein, Steven (Promotor)
Triest, Ludwig (Co-promotor)
Vanpaemel, Gert (Co-promotor)
Verstockt, Steven (Co-promotor)
van Diggelen, Ruurd (Co-promotor)
Hostens, Kris (Co-promotor)
Mees, Jan (Co-promotor)
De Wever, Aaike (Co-promotor)
Dugardin, Chantal (Co-promotor)
Pereboom, Zjef (Co-promotor)
De Nolf, Melanie (Participant)
Abraham, Laura (Participant)
Breugelmans, Lissa (PI)

Meise Botanic Garden

Description

DiSSCo is a world-class research infrastructure for the physical and digital curation of European natural science collections under common management and access policies. To make the collections more visible and useful, their associated data and media should become more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). Representing the largest ever formal agreement between natural history museums, botanical gardens, zoos, universities and other collection-holding institutions, DiSSCo enables the transformation of a fragmented landscape into an integrated knowledge base.

DiSSCo Flanders focuses on digitising and preserving biological, anthropological and geological collections, including various types such as preserved, living and molecular collections. DiSSCo Flanders will create a comprehensive inventory of digitised specimens, spanning botanical gardens, arboreta, herbariums and more across Belgium. Citizen scientists can contribute by transcribing specimen labels on DoeDat.be. The project covers the entire workflow from field sampling to digitisation and online publication. All these valuable science collections will be readily discoverable on the DiSSCo Flanders Hosted Portal. The overarching mission is to enhance both physical and digital access to natural science collections in Flanders, thereby enriching the research landscape and promoting scientific progress.

Short title	DiSSCo Flanders
Status	Active
Effective start/end date	1/01/21 → 31/12/24
Links	https://www.dissco.eu/be/ https://dissco-flanders.be/ https://www.doedat.be/

Research outputs

DiSSCo - unlocking natural science collections
Mergen, P., Trekels, M. & Leliaert, F., 16-Apr-2024. 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
Towards Sustainable Funding Models for the European Open Science Cloud: Financial Sustainability Task Force Progress report
Roi, A. (ed.), Robertson, D. (ed.), Hacque-Cosson, F. (ed.), Versic Ilijasic, I. (ed.), Meijer, J. (ed.), Klemeier, J. (ed.), Kaczmirek, L. (ed.), Mazon, M. R. (ed.), De Giacomo, O. (ed.), Mergen, P. (ed.), Belsø, R. (ed.) & Muscella, S. (ed.), Nov-2022, Brussels: EOSC Association, AISBL. 59 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Report
pre digitisation curation Guidance and best practices
De Smedt, S. & Bogaerts, A., 2022
Research output: Other contribution › Online publication - Web publication
FAIR but not Necessarily Open: Sensitive data in the domain of biodiversity
Mergen, P., Meeus, S. & Leliaert, F., 8-Sept-2023, p. e112296.
Research output: Contribution to conference › C3: Conference - meeting abstract › peer-review
A preliminary report by the DiSSCo General Assembly “Contact Zones” Taskforce
Smith, V., Woodburn, M., French, L., Juslen, A., Casino Rubio, A., Duoulier, F., Koureas, D., Mergen, P., Miller, J. & Schulman, L., 26-May-2021, 18 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Report
Global access to nomenclatural botanical resources: Evaluating open access availability
Nicolson, N., Trekels, M., Groom, Q. J., Knapp, S. & Paton, A. J., Jan-2023, In: Plants People Planet.
Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article › peer-review
Systematic Design of a Natural Sciences Collections Digitisation Dashboard
J. Tilley, L., Woodburn, M., Vincent, S., Casino Rubio, A., Addink, W., Berger, F., Bogaerts, A., Smedt, S. D., French, L., Islam, S., Mergen, P., Nivart, A., Papp, B., Petersen, M., Santos, C., K. Schiller, E., Semal, P., S. Smith, V. & Wiltschke, K., 29-Feb-2024, In: Research Ideas and Outcomes. 10, e118244, p. 1-28 28 p., e118244.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
State of the World's Plants and Fungi, 2023.
Antonelli, A., Fry, C., Smith, R. J., Eden, J., Govaerts, R. H. A., Kersey, P., Nic Lughadha, E., Onstein, R. E., Simmonds, M. S. J., Zizka, A., Ackerman, J. D., Adams, V. M., Ainsworth, A. M., Albouy, C., Allen, A. P., Allen, S. P., Allio, R., Auld, T. D., Bachman, S. P., Baker, W. J., & 166 othersBarrett, R. L., Beaulieu, J. M., Bellot, S., Black, N., Boehnisch, G., Bogarín, D., Boyko, J. D., Brown, M. J. M., Budden, A., Bureš, P., Butt, N., Cabral, A., Cai, L., Aguilar-Cano, J., Chang, Y., Charitonidou, M., Chau, J. H., Cheek, M., Chomicki, G., Coiro, M., Colli-Silva, M., Condamine, F. L., Crayn, D. M., Cribb, P., Cuervo-Robayo, A. P., Dahlberg, A., Deklerck, V., Denelle, P., Dhanjal-Adams, K. L., Druzhinina, I., Eiserhardt, W. L., Elliott, T. L., Enquist, B. J., Escudero, M., Espinosa-Ruiz, S., Fay, M. F., Fernández, M., Flanagan, N. S., Forest, F., Fowler, R. M., Freiberg, M., Gallagher, R. V., Gaya, E., Gehrke, B., Gelwick, K., Grace, O. M., Granados Mendoza, C., Grenié, M., Groom, Q. J., Hackel, J., Hagen, E. R., Hágsater, E., Halley, J. M., Hu, A-Q., Jaramillo, C., Kattge, J., Keith, D. A., Kirk, P., Kissling, W. D., Knapp, S., Kreft, H., Kuhnhäuser, B. G., Larridon, I., Leão, T. C. C., Leitch, I. J., Liimatainen, K., Lim, J. Y., Lucas, E., Lücking, R., Luján, M., Luo, Z-L., Magallón, S., Maitner, B., Márquez-Corro, J. I., Martín-Bravo, S., Martins-Cunha, K., Mashau, A. C., Mauad, A. V., Maurin, O., Medina Lemos, R., Merow, C., Michelangeli, F. A., Mifsud, J. C. O., Mikryukov, V., Moat, J., Monro, A. K., Muasya, A. M., Mueller, G. M., Muellner-Riehl, A. N., Nargar, K., Negrão, R., Nicolson, N., Niskanen, T., Oliveira Andrino, C., Olmstead, R. G., Ondo, I., Oses, L., Parra-Sánchez, E., Paton, A. J., Pellicer, J., Pellissier, L., Pennington, T. D., Pérez-Escobar, O. A., Phillips, C., Pironon, S., Possingham, H., Prance, G., Przelomska, N. A. S., Ramírez-Barahona, S. A., Renner, S. S., Rincon, M., Rivers, M. C., Rojas Andrés, B. M., Romero-Soler, K. J., Roque, N., Rzedowski, J., Sanmartín, I., Santamaría-Aguilar, D., Schellenberger Costa, D., Serpell, E., Seyfullah, L. J., Shah, T., Shen, X., Silvestro, D., Simpson, D. A., Šmarda, P., Šmerda, J., Smidt, E., Smith, S. A., Solano-Gomez, R., Sothers, C., Soto Gomez, M., Spalink, D., Sperotto, P., Sun, M., Suz, L. M., Svenning, J-C., Taylor, A., Tedersoo, L., Tietje, M., Trekels, M., Tremblay, R. L., Turner, R., Vasconcelos, T., Veselý, P., Villanueva, B. S., Villaverde, T., Vorontsova, M. S., Walker, B. E., Wang, Z., Watson, M., Weigelt, P., Wenk, E. H., Westrip, J. R. S., Wilkinson, T., Willett, S. D., Wilson, K. L., Winter, M., Wirth, C., Wölke, F. J. R., Wright, I. J., Zedek, F., Zhigila, D. A., Zimmermann, N. E., Zuluaga, A. & Zuntini, A. R., 1-Oct-2023, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Research output: Book/Report › Report
Collections do not have to Remain Ambiguous Forever: Seven steps to getting the correct people into your data
Groom, Q. J., Bräuchler, C., Cubey, R., Dillen, M., Huybrechts, P., Kearney, N., Leachman, S., Paul, D. L., Rogers, H., Santos, J., Shorthouse, D., Vaughan, A., Mering, S. V. & Haston, E., 2022, In: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference abstract in journal
Research Infrastructure Contact Zones: A method to visualise and align the activities of major biodiversity informatics initiatives
Stuart Smith, V., Juslén, A., Casino Rubio, A., Dusoulier, F., French, L., Koureas, D., Mergen, P., Miller, J., Schulman, L. & Woodburn, M., 13-Sept-2021. 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference › C3: Conference - meeting abstract › peer-review
Network analysis of specimen co-collection
Meeus, S., August, T., Trekels, M., Reyserhove, L. & Groom, Q. J., 7-Dec-2021, BioHackrXiv.
Research output: Other contribution
Making the most out of your collection data to assess the extinction risk of endemic plant species
Tack, W., Engledow, H. & Sosef, M. S. M., 5-Jun-2022.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Published abstract
Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections
Groom, Q., Dillen, M., Addink, W., H. Ariño, A. H., Bölling, C., Bonnet, P., Cecchi, L., Ellwood, E. R., Figueira, R., Gagnier, P-Y., M Grace, O., Güntsch, A., Hardy, H., Huybrechts, P., Hyam, R., J. Joly, A. A., Kommineni, V. K., Larridon, I., Livermore, L., Lopes, R. J., & 16 othersMeeus, S., A. Miller, J., Milleville, K., Panda, R., Pignal, M., Poelen, J., Ristevski, B., Robertson, T., C Rufino, A., Santos, J., Schermer, M., Scott, B., Chantre Seltmann, K., Teixeira, H., Trekels, M. & Gaikwad, J., 30-Nov-2023, In: Biodiversity Data Journal. 11, p. e109439
Research output: Contribution to journal › A2: International peer reviewed article (not A1-type) › peer-review
Implementation Experience Report for the Developing Latimer Core Standard: The DiSSCo Flanders use-case
Trekels, M. & Breugelmans, L., 29-Nov-2023, In: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards.
Research output: Contribution to journal › A2: International peer reviewed article (not A1-type) › peer-review
DiSSCo-Flanders WP2 - task 2.1, Detailed inventory of the collections
Van Baelen, A., Poot, N., Beirinckx, L., Bogaerts, A., Bellefroid, E., Claerhout, T., De Smedt, S., Dugardin, C., Engledow, H., Leliaert, F., Ossaer, J., Pereboom, Z., Semal, P., Slos, D., Smirnova, L., Vandepitte, L., Veltjen, E. & Trekels, M., 1-May-2022, Zenodo. 33 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Report
Latimer Core: A new data standard for collection descriptions
Woodburn, M., Buschbom, J., Droege, G., Grant, S., Groom, Q. J., Jones, J., Trekels, M., Vincent, S. & Webbink, K., 2022, In: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference abstract in journal
Moving around living collection in Meise Botanic Garden: the Green Ark project
Reynders, M., Bellefroid, E., Mergen, P. & Dessein, S., 5-Jun-2022.
Research output: Contribution to conference › C3: Conference - meeting abstract
How Much of Biodiversity is Represented in Collections: A big data workflow of aggregated occurrence data
Huybrechts, P., Trekels, M. & Groom, Q. J., 2022, In: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference abstract in journal
Describing Living Collections and Specimens
Mergen, P., Trekels, M., Leliaert, F., Woodburn, M., Droege, G., Margaret Haston, E., N. Cubey, R. W. & Häffner, E., 31-Aug-2021. 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference › C3: Conference - meeting abstract › peer-review
DiSSCo Flanders - Towards a Collection Management Infrastructure for Flanders
Trekels, M., 29-Sept-2022.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
A Data Standard for Dynamic Collection Descriptions
Woodburn, M., Droege, G., Grant, S., Groom, Q. J., Jones, J., Trekels, M., Vincent, S. & Webbink, K., 3-Sept-2021, A Data Standard for Dynamic Collection Descriptions.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › C3: Conference Abstract › peer-review

Projects

SYNTHESYS PLUS: Synthesis of systematic resources
Stoffelen, P., Bogaerts, A., De Smedt, S., Groom, Q. J., Leliaert, F., Janssens, S. B., Mergen, P., Dessein, S., Trekels, M., Huybrechts, P., Dillen, M. & Verstraete, B.
1/02/19 → 31/01/23
Project: Research
DOE2: Digitale ontsluiting van botanische biodiversiteitsdata
De Smedt, S., Bogaerts, A., Groom, Q. J. & Engledow, H.
1/06/18 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
DiSSCo : Scientific Collections unlocked !
Mergen, P., Leliaert, F., Stoffelen, P., Groom, Q. J., Janssens, S. B., Dessein, S., Vandepitte, L., Vander Mijnsbrugge, K. & Pereboom, Z.
1/01/19 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
ICEDIG: Innovation and consolidation for large scale digitisation of natural heritage
Groom, Q. J., De Smedt, S., Engledow, H., Bogaerts, A., Stoffelen, P., Mergen, P., Leliaert, F. & Dessein, S.
1/01/18 → 31/03/19
Project: Research
DiSSCo Transition: Distributed System of Scientific Collections Transition to ERIC Project
Pijls, S., Leliaert, F., Mergen, P., Groom, Q. J., Dillen, M. & Trekels, M.
1/12/23 → 31/05/25
Project: Research
DOE!: Mass digitisation of the BR Herbarium
De Smedt, S., Engledow, H., Groom, Q. J., Sosef, M., Stoffelen, P. & Bogaerts, A.
1/01/15 → 31/03/18
Project: Research
BiCIKL: Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library
Groom, Q. J., Dillen, M., Meeus, S., Mergen, P. & Huybrechts, P.
1/05/21 → 30/04/24
Project: Research
DiSSCo Prepare
Groom, Q. J., De Smedt, S., Mergen, P., Dillen, M. & Pijls, S.
1/02/20 → 31/01/23
Project: Research
NaturalHeritage: NaturalHeritage.be: Modular interoperable database system and Portal for Belgian Natural History Collections
Semal, P., Vanden Spiegel, D., Engledow, H., Casino, A., Smirnova, L., Mergen, P., Vanderborght, T., Groom, Q. J. & Theeten, F.
1/01/17 → 1/01/21
Project: Research
Mobilising Data, Policies and Experts in Scientific Collections
Mergen, P., De Smedt, S. & Groom, Q. J.
2/10/18 → 1/10/22
Project: Research

Datasets

Meise Botanic Garden Herbarium (BR)
Dillen, M. (Distributor), Bogaerts, A. (Supervisor), Stoffelen, P. (Supervisor), Engledow, H. (Data Manager), De Smedt, S. (Supervisor) & Groom, Q. J. (Distributor), Global Biodiversity Information Facility, 9-May-2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15468/wrthhx, https://www.gbif.org/dataset/b740eaa0-0679-41dc-acb7-990d562dfa37
Dataset