Our vision
An interoperable digital information system for natural science that advances research, conservation efforts, and public understanding of the natural world.
Our mission
To build and maintain an open-source, standards-based digital information system for the natural sciences where organizations and experts share in its development and success.
DINA's unique, "samplistic" design model traces complete object histories and preserves links to derivatives and related material.
DINA is standards-compliant from metadata to material samples to their derived data products such as DNA sequences and multimedia.