DiSSCo UK: a new national programme to digitise the UK’s natural science collections
NatSCA are working with the Natural History Museum London and the Arts and Humanities Research Council on a major new project called DiSSCo UK to digitise a critical mass of the UK’s natural science collections.
Funding of £155 million for a 10-year programme has been announced by the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology as part of the UKRI Infrastructure Fund. The programme will digitise collections; applying AI tools and related technologies to create vast data sets and unlock the impact of collections data in supporting research and collaboration on critical issues including the environmental emergency.
