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From field notebook to publishable data

Padiush carries a whole ethnobotanical study: interviews and field records captured even with no signal, local names reconciled against accepted taxa, and quantitative indices with their formulas cited.

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Free software, in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Table of ethnobiological indices calculated in the platform, with citations, RFC, UV and CI per species.

Real output from the platform, generated with the example study.

One chain of data

What you record in the field is what you analyse. Nothing gets transcribed twice.

  1. 1

    Design the instrument

    Build the interview form with repeatable sections, local-name fields and use categories.

  2. 2

    Work in the field

    The field app works with no signal. Interviews, records, location, audio and photographs stay encrypted on the phone until the network comes back.

  3. 3

    Reconcile the taxonomy

    Link each reported name to an accepted taxon. The original name the interviewee used is never lost.

  4. 4

    Publish the results

    Calculate the indices, review the charts and export to CSV, Excel or the ethnobotanyR package.

Field capture

It does not depend on having signal

The field app, Padiush Companion, keeps every interview and every record on the phone and sends them when a connection returns. Each one carries its own identifier, so retrying a send never duplicates data.

  • Answers, GPS location, audio and photographs
  • Local store encrypted with SQLCipher; the app refuses to capture if encryption is unavailable
  • If the connection drops, large files pick up where they left off
  • You always know when you last synced and what is still to be sent
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The field app's Interviews tab: when it last synced, what is still to send and the interviews saved on the phone.

Field records

Every specimen, with its history

Document observations and collected specimens with coordinates, photographs and a voice note, from the phone or from the web. A record can start from an interview answer that names the plant, and stays linked to it.

  • Observations and collected specimens, with project accession numbers
  • A determination history: who identified each specimen, as what, and when
  • Collecting permits recorded and attached to each specimen
  • The answer each record came from, one click away
A project’s list of field records, with observations and collected specimens.

Taxonomy

Local names, accepted taxa

Search World Flora Online from the species page, adopt the accepted name and keep a record of where the change came from. Distribution comes from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants through GBIF, and an iNaturalist reference photograph helps confirm the identification.

  • Authorship-aware matching and spelling-variant detection
  • Synonyms and accepted names clearly distinguished
  • Native and introduced distribution by botanical region
  • The name reported in the field is always preserved
The project's species catalog, showing scientific name, authority and botanical family.

Analysis

Quantitative indices with their formulas cited

The classic measures of quantitative ethnobiology, calculated on your data, each with the reference that defines it and worked examples verified against the literature.

  • Tables by species and by use category, plus fidelity level
  • Bar charts, a heatmap and a use-report flow diagram
  • Download as SVG or PNG, with your choice of background and resolution
  • Export to CSV and Excel, and an informant × species matrix for ethnobotanyR

Indices included

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Flow diagram connecting each species to the use categories reported for it.

What you can expect

Your data is yours

You keep ownership of your research. We do not sell data, we do not run advertising, and we do not train artificial intelligence models on it.

Encryption where it matters

Answers are encrypted in the database and the phone’s store is encrypted at rest. From your account you can see which browsers and phones you are signed in on, and sign any of them out.

Teams with real permissions

Invite collaborators with different roles: the person capturing, the person analysing and the person only consulting each see something different.

Provenance at every step

Who recorded what, which source a name came from, and what a value was before a correction: all of it is written down.

Start with an example study

With your account you can open a copy of the example study, with interviews, records, species and indices already calculated, and explore it before you design your own. The first time you open each section, a short tour shows you how it works.

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