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:
There have been a number of changes and additions to the list of national recording schemes over the last year or so. The latest updates are:
We are delighted to announce the nominees who have been shortlisted in each of the different categories of the 2017 UK Awards for Biological Recording and Information Sharing. We congratulate them all and celebrate their achievements! For a full list of nominees and corresponding press releases suitable for local news outlets see https://nbn.org.uk/news/announcing-shortlist-uk-awards-biological-recording-information-sharing.
