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Clio is being shaped in the open. We are looking for people who observe, identify, curate, teach, build, or simply want natural-history records to be useful beyond the moment they are uploaded.
Observers
Wildlife sightings, field notes, photographs, films, specimens, water samples, and home microscopy are all part of the intended collection. Contribution is not open yet, but the readiness guide makes the planned workflow and safeguards clear.
View contribution readiness →Identifiers & curators
Naturalists, taxonomists, geologists, imaging specialists, and retired academics can prepare a future application. Academic status is not a shortcut, and exceptional amateur expertise has a defined route.
View curator preparation →Labs & societies
We would like to hear from museums, herbaria, university labs, core imaging facilities, and natural-history societies interested in shaping a carefully scoped pilot.
Discuss a pilot ↗Developers
The future work includes schema validation, provenance, accessible interfaces, archival exports, and open protocol components. It is not yet a production integration.
Talk about building ↗Independent perspective
Clio has no claimed institutional partners or academic endorsements at this stage. If your organization works in biodiversity, natural history, geology, microscopy, or citizen science, we would value a second opinion on the foundations.
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