EarthCape - Biodiversity Database Platform

Designing a mobile application to capture on-the-spot data for living plant collections in botanic gardens
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.28586.27846
Alongside the 8.5 million botanical and mycological items of the Science Collections, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew has an extraordinary wealth of living plant collections across two sites, Kew Gardens and Wakehurst, in the United Kingdom. A key feature of botanic gardens is that the living plant collections contain accurately identified, documented, and labelled collections of plants for one or more of the purposes of conservation, reference, research, interpretation, education, and pleasure. To fulfil this role effectively and to support cutting-edge research at RBG Kew and beyond, a significant milestone was achieved recently by integrating previously isolated living collection data with science collections by migrating them to RBG Kew’s new Integrated Collection Management System (ICMS) supported by EarthCape Oy software, where data for 12 distinct collections are managed in one system. However, desktop version of ICMS poses challenges, as curating living plants mostly involved outdoor activities. Mobile technologies are becoming an increasingly integral part of recording biodiversity data. We present, our experience, insights, best practices, and knowledge on developing an interactive mobile application, so that horticulturalist can capture data and images on spot while engage in their outdoor tasks.

One data source, multiple perspectives -maintaining accurate, integrated and high-quality collections data
December 2025
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.33619.44321
Integrated Collections Management System (ICMS), built on EarthCape Oy software, centralizes data types that are common across all the collections, such as Object records and Occurrences, but provides configurable views on that data for each collection. The system also provides additional collection specific data records, a dedicated tool for data analysis and a mobile application to enable data gathering in gardens and eventually in the field

HEAD OF SEED COLLECTIONS
https://www.veredus.co.uk/job/head-of-seed-collections/