DiSSCo Prepare Project: Increasing the Implementation Readiness Levels of the European Research Infrastructure

The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a new world-class Research Infrastructure (RI) for Natural Science Collections. DiSSCo RI aims to create business model one European collection that digitally unifies all natural science assets under common access, curation, policies and practices ensure the data easily Findable, Accessible, Interoperable Reusable (FAIR principles). represents largest ever formal agreement between history museums, botanic gardens collection-holding institutions in world. entered Roadmap Infrastructures 2018 launched its main preparatory phase project (DiSSCo Prepare) 2020. Prepare primary vehicle through which reaches overall maturity necessary construction eventual operation. raises DiSSCo’s implementation readiness level (IRL) across five dimensions: technical, scientific, data, organisational financial. Each dimension separately addressed by specific Work Packages (WP) with distinct targets, actions tasks will deliver Construction Masterplan. This comprehensive integrated Masterplan be product outputs content related project’s final output. It serve as blueprint RI, including establishing it legal entity. builds on successful completion design study, ICEDIG outcomes other DiSSCo-linked projects such SYNTHESYS+ MOBILISE. paper an abridged version original grant proposal. contains overarching scientific case Prepare, alongside description our major activities.