Oikos: FieldBook

Herpeto Mantiqueira

About this app

Digital field notebook developed for researchers, students, biologists, ecologists, botanists, zoologists, and environmental monitors who need to record biodiversity data in a simple, organized, and offline way.

The application brings together in one place the creation of projects, field expeditions, biological occurrences, GPS coordinates, trails, photos, audios, and notes. The goal is to facilitate the routine of those who work in the field, reducing dependence on improvised spreadsheets, loose notes, and media files disconnected from scientific records.

Each occurrence can be recorded with taxonomic data, location, observations, media, and custom fields. The app was designed to work in simple or advanced mode, allowing the form to be adapted for fauna, flora, fungi, and different types of inventory or monitoring.

The data is organized internally based on the Darwin Core standard, but without requiring the user to know the technical terms. In practice, the researcher records the information in a user-friendly interface, while Oikos prepares the data for scientific export.

Main features:

- Offline functionality.

- Creation of research projects.

- Registration of field expeditions.

- Registration of biological occurrences.

- Configurable fields for fauna, flora, and fungi.

- Capture of GPS coordinates.

- Registration of expedition trails.

- Attachment of photos and audio to records.

- Export in CSV, XLSX, JSON, GeoJSON, and ZIP formats.

- Organization of media linked to occurrences and expeditions.

- Data compatible with Darwin Core.

- Files prepared for use in Excel, QGIS, R, Python, and scientific workflows.

Created to make field data collection more practical, beautiful, and reliable: from researcher to researcher.