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.

Where are all the fish? And other questions that curators are asked

by Quentin Groom

A new ICEDIG project deliverable summarizes the policy component of the ICEDIG project website. This deliverable is composed of a dashboard showing the outputs of the institutional policy analysis that was previously carried out, along with further contextual information.

As you all know, ICEDIG is designing certain elements of the DiSSCo research infrastructure. Now, DiSSCo is looking to fill a scientific and a technical advisory boards DiSSCo, the new world-class Research Infrastructure for natural science collections is looking to fill two advisory boards!

One of the main challenges for ICEDIG is to find workable methods for mass digitisation. In the respective Work Package, a series of deliverables documents the state of the art in different methodologies. The first two of these deliverables have recently be published on our website.