All your park's scientific projects, in one place
Research and museum projects: who does what, on which animals, and what remains to be done, from the first request to the publication.
- Clear requests
- Actions right on time
- Exports ready to share
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A research project means many people and many deadlines
A university wants samples from your giraffes. Who's on it? And when do you take them? Between exchanges with researchers, veterinary visits, sample shipments and expected deliverables, information quickly gets lost in inboxes.
The Scientific projects module brings all your park's research and museum projects together in one place: the request, the people involved, the animals concerned, the actions to carry out, milestones and deliverables, right through to documents and history.
Each project has its own sheet, open to the whole park team, and no sampling opportunity is missed.
Scientific projects on video
The module in 84 seconds, from the request to the deliverables. Play with sound.
Clear requests, from samples to museum specimens
Each project spells out what is asked of the park: questionnaire, documents, behavioural observations, samples or taxidermy.
- Samples — from a live animal or at necropsy, with the type of sample: blood, faeces or urine, tissue or organ, hair or feathers, imaging.
- Specimens to keep — the request states what must be kept for museums or biobanks.
- Sample shipping — shipping address and conditions (tube, temperature, timing) recorded on the sheet.
- Animals concerned — the project's species and individuals are listed on the sheet.
Your team and the Akongo team on the same project
The sheet brings together everyone who matters in the project: your team, the Akongo team when it takes part, outside researchers and the partner parks concerned.
- Park side — a lead and team members. The whole team can view the project; management and veterinarians edit it.
- Akongo side — when Akongo takes part in the project, its scientists work in the same sheet as you.
- Outside researchers — the name and organisation of each outside person, who can also be responsible for an action.
- Partner parks — the parks concerned are on the sheet, and a new partner park can trigger an action.
- Interns — level, name and period of each intern hosted.
Actions that wait for the right moment
An action is set on a date, or on a real event: the next weighing, the next anaesthesia, a necropsy, a death or a new partner park.
- Spotted by the app — as soon as a weighing, a death or a new partner park is recorded, the action is flagged “to handle”: no sampling opportunity is missed.
- Anaesthesia and necropsy — the action waits until the team ticks it off.
- One person responsible per action — a person, a sector, the veterinary team or an outside researcher.
- Right into the sector logbook — a dated action can become a sector logbook task; when the task is completed, the action is ticked off.
- Nothing forgotten — overdue actions stand out in red, and the “Actions to do” view gathers those of every project.
Milestones, deliverables and observations in view
The calendar brings together the deadlines of every project: the month to plan, the week for the teams, the timeline for multi-year programmes.
- Milestones — data collection starts, method approved, fieldwork ends…
- Deliverables — publication, oral presentation, poster or social media video, with their planned date.
- Out-of-period alerts — a milestone or deliverable planned outside the project dates is flagged.
- Linked observation campaigns — the focal observations and scans of the campaigns linked to the project are counted on its sheet, with the latest sessions.
The whole project on its sheet, ready to share
Documents, photos and videos, history: the project keeps its memory. And when it is time to report on it, the export takes a few clicks.
- Documents — protocols, agreements and publications, filed with the project.
- Gallery — the project's photos and videos.
- History — who did what, and when: edits, actions ticked off, documents added.
- Full project file — as a PDF, or in Word to rework the text.
- Public sheet — an accessible text to present the project to your visitors.
- Report — a short illustrated page per project over the chosen period, in plain language.
Ideas on hold are never lost
A research lead without a partner or a budget yet? Note it as an idea, with the species concerned, where it came from and its date.
It waits for the right moment in the list of ideas. The day the partner comes along, it becomes a project, with nothing to retype.
Explore scientific projects
A project to carry out with our research team?
Akongo designs the protocol, collects and analyses the data with you, then disseminates the results. The project is then followed in this module, on the park side and the Akongo side.
Scientific projects connected to the rest of the park
Projects build on the data your teams already enter.
- Behavioural evaluationsFocal observations from linked campaigns are counted on the project sheet.Explore module
- Space useScans from linked campaigns also feed the project.Explore module
- Team coordinationA dated action can become a sector logbook task, and ticks itself off when the task is completed.Explore module
- Individual managementA weighing or a death recorded on an animal's record wakes up the actions waiting for it.Explore module
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