European Loans and Visits System

ELViS is a service of DiSSCo (Distributed System of Scientific Collections), a new world-class Research Infrastructure (RI) for natural science collections. ELViS will be a one-stop shop for researchers to provide access to specimens (visits, loans, digitisation on demand) in natural science collections in Europe.

Version 1.0.0 of ELViS was a deliverable of the SYNTHESYS+ project and used for Transnational Access (TA) and Virtual Access (VA / Digitisation on Demand) programmes.

Components

Backend

Frontend

Version 1.0.0 provides the following functionalities:

• Registration for TA and VA.
• Creation of Calls
• Facilities and Institution information
• Submission and approval of the TA/VA proposal

Future roadmap:

• Integration with DiSSCo AAI
• Digitisation on Demand (DoD) transactions
• Loans transactions
• Visits transactions
• Peer review transactions
• Interactive Dashboard view
• Reporting views
• Integration with Helpdesk
• Integration with DiSSCo user profiles

Data Sources

Some of the data sources currently considered for ELViS (the data flow, integration details are still under discussion):

• CETAF Passports
• CETAF Collection registry
• GrSciCol
• GRID
• ORCID
• GBIF+CoL
• GeoCase
• Index Herbariorum
• WikiData
• GGBN
• DataCite
• Synthesys portal