The DINA project develops DINA-Web - a Digital Natural History Collections Management System for the Web.
This open-source web-based information management supports assembling, managing and sharing data associated with natural history collections and their curation (“collection management”). Target collections include zoological, botanical, geological and paleontological collections, living collections, biodiversity inventories, observation records, and molecular data.
DINA is primarily intended for large installations servicing the collection management needs of a country, a region, or a large institution.
DINA is developed by the DINA consortium, an unincorporated international partnership among organizations and individuals for collaborative open-source development. The DINA consortium was founded in 2014 by six natural history collection institutions in Europe and North America and is open to additional members as detailed below.
The DINA acronym stands for “DIgital Information system for NAtural history data”, and has its roots in a Swedish initiative to replace a heterogeneous collection of unsustainable in-house legacy databases with a modern, web-based national collection management system.
A hybrid DINA version, “DINA Light”, is currently in production at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. It consists of several prototype DINA modules running on top of the Specify 6 data model, and it uses the Specify 6 Java client for core collection management tasks.
Public interfaces include: