The research infrastrcuture ICEDIG is working towards opened today the call for applications to become a member of its General Assembly.

A new study examines how Digital Object Architecture, a logical extension of the globally adopted Internet Architecture addresses the challenges of actively stewarding the aggregation and virtualization of widely distributed data about biological and geological specimens in natural science collections.

With around 1.5 billion specimens of plants, animals, insects, fossils, rocks and minerals in European natural heritage collections, and digitization of these proceeding apace, never has it been more important to have a coherent plan for the management of petabytes of natural heritage data over the coming decades.

ICEDIG was represented by our partner Picturae at the Time Machine Conference 2019 in Dresden, Germany on 10-11 October 2019.

Photo: 3D Scan of a 34-million-year-old extinct species from Nebraska closely related to cats, courtesy of the Florida Museum

Throughout the work on the latest developments and state of the art in digitisation techniques, the relevant project partners are releasing a series of deliverables focusing on specific ones and other aspects of the digitisation process. The first two of these have been summarized here.