The Biological Records Centre has collaborated with a number of recording schemes and mobile app developers to launch a range of smartphone apps in the past 5 years. These apps provide identification resources and aim to make it easy to submit wildlife records. The sightings go to iRecord, allowing recorders to see all their observations in one place.
Over recent months BRC have been working with the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland to bring a ‘square bashing’ data input mode to iRecord. The results of this can be found at www.brc.ac.uk/irecord/enter-vascular-plants and a PDF overview of the functionality (in the form of a poster recently presented at the BSBI Scottish Recorders’ Meeting and the Annual Exhibition Meetings) is available here.
Online recording
Large numbers of records continue to arrive via iRecord (and the many websites and apps that feed in to its linked database). This allows us to make the records available for verification and sharing, in conjunction with the relevant national recording schemes.
BRC hosts websites for a number of recording schemes and projects. During the last year there has been a particular focus on development support for two of these:
