Geonomia

Geonomia is a project to discover collecting trips in GBIF-mediated preserved specimen occurrence data, as a step towards effective cross-institutional georeferencing.

About

It is an entry into the 2026 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, and is being developed by a team from RBG Kew (Nicky Nicolson, Steve Bachman and Ashleigh Whittaker) plus input and experience from the wider biodiversity informatics community.

How to use

This site site shows the results of a run-through of the geonomia process for botanical specimens collected in Malaysia, and is intended to demonstrate the potential of the approach. You can:

Explore the occurrence data

List all occurences assigned to a particular trip
View a specific occurrence that has been assigned to a collecting trip e.g. Beaman 10725

Explore the collecting trips

List the trips recognised in the dataset
View the details of a particular trip, e.g. Chew 1964

Explore the schema and run arbitrary SQL queries

Get involved

The project is being developed in the open, and we welcome contributions and feedback from anyone interested in the project. Please see our GitHub repository for more information and ways to get involved.

Geonomia

Geonomia is a web application for exploring and analyzing biodiversity occurrence data, with a focus on collecting events and collectors. It provides tools for clustering occurrences, reconciling collector names, and visualizing data on maps.

geonomia

5 tables, 10 hidden tables

occ, cluster, profile, dataset, reconcile_rb_rn_yr