BotBot Knowledge Packs

Public distribution point for the Regional Knowledge Packs used by the Botanist Bot mobile app, an off/online plant-identification app.

This repository holds no application source. It exists so packs can be fetched without authentication; the app itself is private.

What a pack is

One read-only SQLite file per region, downloaded on request by the user and never automatically. Each pack carries, for the taxa of one US state:

• taxa — scientific name, family, common names, GBIF taxon key
• taxon_embeddings — precomputed BioCLIP ViT-B/16 text-tower vectors, fp16, 512-d
• knowledge — description, care, toxicity, each with its provenance
• occurrences — coarse ~50 km GBIF occurrence grid
• attributions — the notices reproduced below

Toxicity text appears only where a cited source exists. Where there is none the field is null and the app says so, rather than guessing.

Available packs

Region	Pack	Taxa	Size	Release
Florida	region-us-fl	24	104 KB	packs-0.1.0
Connecticut	region-us-ct	24	108 KB	packs-0.2.0
Massachusetts	region-us-ma	24	104 KB	packs-0.3.0
New York	region-us-ny	24	104 KB	packs-0.4.0
New Jersey	region-us-nj	24	104 KB	packs-0.5.0
Vermont	region-us-vt	24	104 KB	packs-0.6.0
Georgia	region-us-ga	24	108 KB	packs-0.7.0
Arizona	region-us-az	24	104 KB	packs-0.8.0
California	region-us-ca	24	108 KB	packs-0.9.0

Each release asset is verified by SHA-256 on the device before it is installed; a mismatch aborts the install.

Attribution

Packs contain material from the sources below, and each pack reproduces these notices in its own attributions table, which the app surfaces under Settings → Data attributions.

• USDA NRCS PLANTS Database — CC0 1.0 — https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/downloads Every Taxon was checked against the relevant USDA NRCS State Plants List.
• GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — CC BY 4.0 — https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei Names, families, and taxon keys were resolved against GBIF.
• Wikipedia — CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/ Available cited descriptions are English Wikipedia extracts.

Licence

The pack files in every release are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). The Wikipedia extracts inside them are CC BY-SA, and share-alike is the strictest term among the sources, so it governs the whole file. The other components are compatible with it:

Component	Source licence	Within the pack
Taxon names, families, GBIF keys	GBIF Backbone — CC BY 4.0	CC BY-SA 4.0
USDA symbols and state membership	USDA NRCS PLANTS — CC0 1.0	CC BY-SA 4.0
Descriptions	English Wikipedia — CC BY-SA 4.0	CC BY-SA 4.0
Taxon embeddings	Output of BioCLIP (MIT); no licence attaches to model output	CC BY-SA 4.0
Occurrence grid	Derived from GBIF occurrence records; per-record licences (CC0, CC BY, CC BY-NC) are counted in a non-shipping build snapshot	CC BY-SA 4.0

If you redistribute a pack, or anything derived from one, keep the attributions table intact and license the result under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Model and tooling

Embeddings are produced by the BioCLIP ViT-B/16 text tower using the 80-template OpenAI ImageNet prompt ensemble. A pack is only compatible with an app build whose model_id and embedding_dim match its pack_meta.

• BioCLIP — MIT — https://huggingface.co/imageomics/bioclip · https://github.com/Imageomics/bioclip · Stevens et al., BioCLIP: A Vision Foundation Model for the Tree of Life, CVPR 2024, https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18803
• open_clip — MIT — https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip — loads the model and supplies the OPENAI_IMAGENET_TEMPLATES prompt set
• OpenAI CLIP — MIT — https://github.com/openai/CLIP — origin of the 80 ImageNet prompt templates
• SQLite — public domain — https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html — pack container format