Introduction

The Field Book App by PhenoApps is a mobile application for phenotypic data collection. This replaces the traditional way of collecting data, which is by using paper and pen and encoding data collected in a computer thereafter. Field book was created to improve data collection by making the process efficient while minimizing errors caused by manual encoding.

Particularly, the Field Book App allows you to collect data and submit collected data using occurrence and trait files exported from a study in EBS. Below is the end-to-end guide on how to use it with the EBS.

Getting Started

Before anything else, make sure you have the following:

(1) Field Book App. Download the Field Book App from Google Play to your android mobile or any data collection device (e.g. CT5, iData50, iData80).

(2) Local device. This is where you will store and share your files.

(3) EBS account.

Great! Now that you have everything set, you may start exporting your files from the EBS.