The DINA Project
The DINA Consortium develops an open-source web-based information management system for natural history data that consists of several connected software components. At the core of the system is support for assembling, managing and sharing data associated with natural history collections and their curation ("collection management"). Target collections include zoological, botanical, geological and paleontological collections, living collections, biodiversity inventories, observation records, and molecular dat
DINA is developed by the DINA consortium, an unincorporated international partnership among organizations and individuals for collaborative open-source development. The DINA consortium was founded in 2014 by six natural history collection institutions in Europe and North America and is open to additional members as detailed below. The DINA acronym stands for " DI gital Information system for NA tural history data ", and has its roots in a Swedish initiative to replace a heterogeneous collection of unsustain
Several DINA consortium partners now have hybrid collection management systems in production, which are largely based on Specify 6/7 but also include additional components developed within the DINA consortium. For instance, public interfaces to such a hybrid DINA-Specify system currently in production at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm include Naturarv ("Natural Heritage" - collection portal), Swedish DNA key (DNA barcode portal), and Naturforskaren ("The Naturalist" - species profile pag
The DINA Project