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Clio is being shaped in the open. We are looking for people who observe, identify, curate, teach, build, or want field, lab and collection records to remain useful beyond the moment they are made.
Observers
Wildlife sightings, field notes, photographs, films, specimens, water samples, and home microscopy are all part of the collection. Create a draft, appraise your media, add the context you have, and publish a public version when it is ready.
Open the contributor workspace →Working on something now
Find atlases, terminology and taxonomic sources to help describe a find. Each entry explains its scope and limits. The library is open to everyone.
Open the reference library →Identifiers & curators
Naturalists, taxonomists, geologists, imaging specialists, and retired academics can prepare for a curator application. Applications and curator authority are not live; academic status is not a shortcut, and exceptional amateur expertise has a defined route.
View curator preparation →Students & teachers
Help test prompts that make method, uncertainty, attribution and location care visible. Classroom activity needs appropriate consent and supervision; if you are under 18, ask a teacher or guardian to contact us, and please do not email personal or project data.
Educators and adult students: discuss a pilot ↗Labs, collections & societies
Discuss a small pilot with your museum, herbarium, lab or natural-history society. Agree on what to share, who will review it and how participants will be supported.
Discuss a pilot ↗Developers
Help extend schema validation, provenance, accessible interfaces, archival exports, and open protocol components around the live contributor workflow.
Talk about building ↗Independent perspective
Clio has no claimed institutional partners or academic endorsements at this stage. If your organisation works in biodiversity, natural history, geology, microscopy, citizen science or STEM education, we would value a second opinion on the foundations and the boundaries a responsible pilot needs.
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