introduction

Ghini server is a AGPL software, aiming at letting professional and amateur botanists share knowledge, in the form of plant images, localization of plant observations, taxonomic identifications.

Ghini server follows established best practices for botanical collections, so that it can successfully be used by botanical institutions needing a strong database foundation.

The combination ghini.server + ghini.web is the natural successor of ghini.desktop, a GPL desktop program. Even if the interface are very similar, they are based on different technologies, and are not compatible at the database level. There might come a ghini.desktop version compatible with ghini.server.

serving

Installation of a ghini.server site amounts to installing a standard django service. This is a rather technical task, so please either look for and refer to the corresponding documentation, or ask for advise and support.

fallback

Please refer to ghini.desktop

showcasing

Ghini server's initial goal is to showcase itself in the form of geographic botanical collections. If you have a use case and want to participate, please contact the Ghini team. As of now, there's the following projects:

  • cuaderno, a botanist's collection handbook.
  • almaghreb, wild plants in the Atlas Region.
  • tanager, a small privately held botanical garden. The data in the database is by far not the complete garden's collection.
  • caribe, wild plants in the Caribbean Area.

Participants get access to ghini's editing facilities and the django admin interface to the database, while anonymous visitors can browse and query the data from the ghini interface.