For field and collection work
Help distinguish the useful context around observations, specimens, samples, locality care, custody and rights.
Work with Clio
Make careful observation easier to carry forward.
Clio is a public museum for evidence-rich work across natural history, geology, environmental science, imaging and citizen science. Contributors can prepare and publish public records; organisations and research teams can help improve the practice around them.
Publish and cite your observations. Prepare a private draft, then choose when to publish. Published records have Clio permalinks and version details for citation. DOI review is optional and does not assign a DOI.
Institutions & STEM providers
Help strengthen responsible practice.
Museums, herbaria, learned societies, university departments, STEM providers and community programmes can help identify where a careful public record would add value.
We welcome scoped conversations about collection context, access boundaries, teaching use, review responsibilities and realistic handover. This is an invitation to collaborate, not a claim of partnership, deposit, integration or endorsement.
Discuss working togetherResearchers & creators
Bring the observation with its method.
Naturalists, taxonomists, geologists, imaging specialists and independent creators can help identify what evidence, context and review should travel with an observation.
For lab and imaging work
Help define what preparation, acquisition, scale, calibration and derived-media context makes an image or sample interpretable later.
Students & teachers
Teach observation as a practice.
We are looking for educators, tertiary students and supervised student groups to test learning prompts that make method, uncertainty, attribution, location care and revision visible.
Use appropriate consent and supervision for any classroom activity. Do not publish personal or sensitive material, and anyone under 18 should ask a teacher or guardian to make first contact; please do not email personal or project data.
Educators and adult students: start a conversationField & lab teams
Make context reusable.
Help define practical, proportionate checklists for field sampling, collection work, media, microscopy and environmental context.
Standards inform the design, while each contributor remains responsible for rights, safety and appropriate publication. Use Record Studio to plan locally, then sign in to save a draft, upload files and publish.
Open the contributor workspaceStart a conversation
Strengthen the service with us.
We welcome scoped conversations about pilots, curriculum, field documentation, collection context, or evidence practice. Participation does not imply a partnership, endorsement, or publication outcome.