An ICI Innolabs experiment
About this project
Can an autonomous agent carry a research question all the way to a working atlas?
Carpathian Atlas explores that question through the wildlife of the Romanian Carpathians. The experiment connects planning, scientific research and evidence synthesis with implementation, testing and review.
A project carried out by ICI Innolabs
01 / The research question
Understanding the animals.
Following their evidence.
The task asks the agent to investigate animals of the Romanian Carpathians: which species are documented, how they live, which habitats they depend on and what is known about their distribution areas.
That means reading scientific papers, conservation assessments, field-monitoring reports and public datasets; checking names and geographic scope; and bringing the findings together into species dossiers with traceable sources.
The wider experiment tests whether that research can guide a complete implementation: an experience people can explore, with evidence they can inspect. The current collection is a selection of 36 species, rather than an exhaustive inventory of Carpathian fauna.
02 / From question to public experiment
The entire process, in view.
Each stage produces something the next stage can use. Review can send the work back for another pass.
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Plan
Define the question, geographic scope and what a useful result should contain.
OutputResearch brief -
Research
Read scientific papers, monitoring reports and authoritative datasets. Follow the evidence.
OutputLinked findings -
Build dossiers
Bring together species identity, ecology, distribution claims, citations and open questions.
OutputSpecies dossiers -
Implement
Turn the findings into species pages, galleries and an atlas of reported ranges.
OutputWorking atlas -
Validate
Check data, source attribution, application behaviour and desktop and mobile layouts.
OutputValidation results -
Review & refine
Inspect the evidence and implementation. Resolve issues and keep remaining gaps visible.
OutputReviewed result -
Publish
Make the atlas available with sources, reporting periods and limitations intact.
OutputPublic experiment
03 / Keeping the research inspectable
What a species
dossier holds.
A record of the findings, the sources behind them and the questions still open.
Explore the lynx range evidenceThe dossier brings the investigation together. In this atlas, its findings appear in species notes and range-evidence panels, with links to the original papers, reports and datasets.
- Identity & ecology
- Common and scientific names, species context, habitats and ecological findings.
- Distribution evidence
- What the sources document, where their records apply, their reporting dates and the resolution of any mapped areas.
- Sources & open questions
- Citations that can be followed, uncertainty that needs care and gaps that further research must address.
Reading the results with care
The ambition is broad.
The evidence has boundaries.
Reported distributions describe a source and a period. The atlas preserves those dates and resolutions, including 10 × 10 km reporting grids. The map focuses on the Romanian Carpathians, while source polygons retain their Romanian national extent.
A reported cell does not establish occupation of every location inside it. Missing geometry does not establish absence. Historical records and species without verified comparable public maps remain identified as such.
Gallery images are AI-generated illustrations. They support exploration; they are not field photographs or evidence of an animal’s presence. This is a research and implementation experiment, and its outputs still need to be read alongside their sources and limitations.
04 / A continuing investigation
From RO Atlas to Carpathian Atlas.
Carpathian Atlas continues the RO Atlas experiment with a stronger focus on evidence research. Here, wildlife is the subject: scientific reading, species dossiers and source-backed geographic findings guide the implementation.