Living Record

LivingRecord.net is a national data collection function with the aim of building teams of recorders, informing and motivating them.

• It makes logging records of all faunal groups quick, easy and precise using Google Maps to indicate location.
• It makes recording less daunting for new recorders.
• It provides each recorder with his own personal records system to encourage review, correction and analysis.
• It provides a set of Google Maps distribution maps that display the recorder’s own records or all records entered, to inform and motivate the recorders.
• Vice-county Recorders (VCRs) can review and verify all records entered for their VCs within days of the sightings, setting each record to accept/query/reject as necessary.  This spreads the workload evenly through the season and ensures that the VCR is up to date with the latest information.
• Recorders do their own data entry, relieving the VCR of this task.

The system can produce a single, cleanly formatted Excel file of all verified records for the year for each VC (for each species group).  This can be sent to the BDS, your local record centre etc. Only the verified data gets through!

The system could be used for all your records but we think that trying this on non-avifauna to start with and see how it progresses. There are categories for Dragonflies, Mammals, Bees, Macro-moths, Mayflies, Buttlefies to name but a few! Any queries, please contact the Secretary.