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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
Try prompts that make method, uncertainty, attribution and location care visible, and tell us what works. 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: talk to us ↗Labs, collections & societies
Clio One gives your team a private project space: invite members, import a CSV or JSON file, review what arrives, and define a research schema and export a research package when you are ready. Nothing becomes public until you publish it. Talk to us first about what to share, who reviews it and how participants are supported.
Talk to us about your project ↗Developers
Help extend schema validation, provenance, accessible interfaces, archival exports, and open protocol components around the live contributor workflow.
Talk about building ↗New pilot kit
A school, club or community group can spend one afternoon recording real observations in Clio One, with a ready-made set of fields for backyard pollinators or beach microplastics. The guide is printable, with a sign-in QR code and field sheets. It is new, so tell us how it goes.
Open the Field Day guideIndependent perspective
Clio has no institutional partners or academic endorsements yet. If your organisation works in biodiversity, natural history, geology, microscopy, citizen science or STEM education, we would value a second opinion on how Clio records evidence and where its limits should sit.
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