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About this module:

This module was created for palaeontologist Prof. Stephen Dornbos, based at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. The module has been designed to assist with palaeontological fieldwork, such as navigating in the terrain, mapping and documenting sites and keeping track of taken samples.

Authorship:

This module was co-developed by Stephen Dornbos at UWM and Shawn Ross and Petra Janouchova at the FAIMS Project, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University.

Funding:

Development of this module was funded by Macquarie University Strategic Infrastructure Scheme (MQSIS) 20110091, aimed to support FAIMS infrastructure development in 2017.

Date of release:

July 2017

FAIMS Mobile version:

FAIMS v2.5 (Android 6+)

Licence:

This module is licensed under an international Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0).

Access:

The module is made for demostration purposes and it can be downloaded from this GitHub repository.

This module contains the following FAIMS features:

  • user sign-up (users can create their own accounts)
  • validated fields with user observations
  • controlled vocabularies
  • picture galleries
  • hierarchic dropdowns
  • coordinates from internal GPS
  • mapping features (map with layers, creating point, lines, polygons)
  • attribute-level timestamps
  • photo capture from device camera

This module can be used with no or minor modification for:

  • geological / palaeontological site recording
  • site sampling

Contact info:

For more details about the Prof. Stephen Dornbos please visit https://uwm.edu/geosciences/people/dornbos-stephen/. If you have any questions about the Prof. Dornbos’ project, contact sdornbos@uwm.edu.

If you have any questions about the module, please contact the FAIMS team at enquiries@fedarch.org and we will get back to you within one business day.