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.
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
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