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Software overview

Open-Source survey infrastructure

SpeleoDB

Version, protect, and collaborate on cave survey data.

SpeleoDB applies proven version-control ideas to the needs of cave survey teams. Surveys, files, and revisions remain traceable and recoverable while contributors retain control of the data they collect.

Availability
Free and open source
Platform
Cloud service or self-hosted
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01 / Context

Survey data should outlive hardware, handoffs, and individual projects.

Cave survey records accumulate through years of field work, corrections, and contributions from different teams. Ordinary file sharing makes it difficult to establish what changed, recover a trusted version, or preserve the reasoning behind a revision.

SpeleoDB treats that history as part of the scientific record. It combines versioned storage, explicit collaboration, and community-oriented governance so a dataset can remain understandable and recoverable over time.

02 / Capabilities

Purpose-built controls, without unrelated complexity.

A free, open-source platform that brings recoverable history, deliberate permissions, and accountable collaboration to cave survey records.

  1. 01

    Version history

    Maintain Git-backed version history for survey files, project changes, and contributor revisions.

  2. 02

    Team survey collaboration

    Coordinate survey teams in the field and sync their contributions through the SpeleoDB mobile app.

  3. 03

    Direct GIS integration

    Connect cave survey data directly to ArcGIS, QGIS, and other GIS workflows.

  4. 04

    Collaboration

    Coordinate contributors in a shared project while retaining an accountable change history.

  5. 05

    Data stewardship

    Apply privacy and ownership controls designed around the cave-survey community.

  6. 06

    Deployment choice

    Use the hosted service or self-host the open-source platform when direct control is required.

  7. 07

    Open direction

    Support interoperable and decentralized survey exchange through the developing SpeleoPUB protocol.

03 / Workflow

A focused path from source material to useful evidence.

  1. 01

    Establish the project

    Bring a survey team and its existing records into one accountable workspace.

  2. 02

    Track contributions

    Preserve authorship and revision history as files, observations, and interpretations evolve.

  3. 03

    Recover and publish

    Collaborate and share results without surrendering ownership of the underlying data.

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