Unverified
As submitted. The original contributor’s words and media remain visible.
Core + Extension
One event, with the right evidence attached.
A bird sighting, a quartz sample, a plankton tow, and an SEM image need different fields. They still share a who, when, where, provenance, and licence. Clio’s planned architecture keeps that common spine intact.
Event core
Every submission starts here.
- eventID
- platform-minted UUID v4
- eventDate
- ISO 8601 date or date-time
- decimalLatitude
- WGS84 decimal degrees
- coordinateUncertaintyInMeters
- required, including deliberate fuzzing
- recordedByID
- ORCID iD, where available
- license
- CC0, CC BY, or CC BY-NC
Extensions
Domain-specific evidence joins the event.
- biology
- Darwin Core Occurrence
- geology
- ABCD-EFG, IGSN where retained
- media
- Audiovisual Core, EXIF
- microscopy
- REMBI, OME-TIFF, OME-Zarr
- sampling
- Humboldt Extension
- packaging
- EML, Darwin Core Archive
Verification is data
The latest identification is never the whole story.
The planned record retains the verbatim submission, normalized values, and every identification event. A status is a queryable state with evidence behind it.
Community-verified
At least two independent, agreeing identifiers from established contributors.
Expert-verified
Confirmed by a credentialed curator with an ORCID iD and affiliation on file.
Identity + evidence foundations
Clio keeps the control plane close to the museum.
The repository contains local DID/OIDC and Clio Local Evidence v1 foundations. They are not deployed as production services, and the local evidence protocol must not be confused with the Maatara Veritas protocol.
Clio-owned identities
Clio is designed to mint and resolve contributor did:web identities and hold the keys where possible, with recovery and rotation still required before launch.
Preferred Maatara path
Maatara is the preferred hard-dependency target after portable SDK, licensing, conformance, security, and support gates. Hosted Maatara services remain optional.
Honest evidence status
Local commitments are tamper-evident and designed for future external anchoring. DOI registration is disabled; dataset DOI integration is planned.
The academic handshake
Projection, not translation.
The intended export path is a projection from standard-shaped internal fields into a Darwin Core Archive: meta.xml, eml.xml, and occurrence, event, and media tables. That makes future repository review simpler, but it is not a claim that an export pipeline is live today.
| Record layer | Planned output | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Event | event.txt | Who, when, where, and sampling context |
| Occurrence | occurrence.txt | Organism identity and verification history |
| Media | multimedia.txt | Images, access URIs, and file metadata |
| Dataset | eml.xml | Scope, methods, attribution, and licence |