Connect living collections to molecular observations
Establish reproducible workflows for sampling, tracking, profiling, and documenting plant material from botanical gardens.
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Vision & Goals
A concise statement of DBGI's vision, mission, and goals.
Vision
Botanical gardens as connected, open research infrastructure.
DBGI envisions botanical gardens as a connected, open, and reusable research infrastructure for observing plant chemo- and biodiversity.
Mission
DBGI develops open workflows, data models, software, and community practices that help botanical gardens transform living collections into interoperable scientific knowledge.
Approach
The initiative links living collections, sampling workflows, metabolomics, biodiversity data, and open knowledge systems so botanical gardens are easier to sample, compare, document, and reuse for science.
Goals
What DBGI is building toward
Make botanical garden data reusable
Structure samples, taxa, locations, protocols, spectra, and derived knowledge using open standards and linked data practices.
Support collaborative chemodiversity research
Enable gardens, laboratories, and data communities to jointly study plant chemical diversity across collections and geographies.
Build open scientific infrastructure
Share code, data, protocols, notebooks, and knowledge resources as openly as possible for inspection, reuse, and extension.
Grow a distributed community
Bring together botanical gardens, researchers, developers, and knowledge-management specialists around practical shared workflows.