The Pacific Pest and Pathogens App has been updated again to include an additional 30 taxa and fact sheets, many of these being pests and pathogens of vegetable crops found in the Papua New Guinea highlands. The App now covers 300 pests and diseases.
Authors: Grahame Jackson et al.
Funded by: ACIAR, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
The MyCrop key Apps (Wheat, Barley, Oats, Canola and Pluses) have all been recently updated.
Traffic – the wildlife trade monitoring network and the South African National Biodiversity Institute SANBI have been working on two identification keys to help assist customs officials, law enforcement officers, border police and Environmental Management Inspectors (EMI’s) working against the illegal wildlife and plant trade. The following two “IDentifyIT – Species” keys help inspectors identify plant and wildlife parts. They are now preparing to make these keys available to the public – see below.
Cycad ID Tool – provides a practical, easy-to-use identification guide to South African Encephalartos species.
Species ID Tool – assists with the identification of South African TOPS and CITES-listed species, thereby enabling better regulation and monitoring of the local and international trade in these threatened and endangered species.
Authors: Tess Rayner et al.
Android & iOS: Coming Soon. Please check back later.
These key projects were a collaboration between the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and TRAFFIC, the Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network, a strategic alliance of WWF – World Wide Fund for Nature and IUCN – The World Conservation Union. The project was sponsored by NORAD, SANBI and the Mazda Wildlife Fund.
We have been working with Dr Anders Hallan and Dr Winston Ponder from the Australian Museum over the past few months to ready this key for release.
The Australian Freshwater Molluscs key is one of the first to use the new Lucid JavaScript Player. It shows off a number of new features that are now available. For example, this key demonstrates how users, via JavaScript, can control the selection of feature states and subsets selection, along with various interface elements such as windows, thumbnails and other key settings prior to opening the key.
The content for this key was developed in Fact Sheet Fusion, which used a customised template based on the responsive Html Bootstrap framework, enabling the content to be viewed across various screen sizes and devices.
A Lucid Mobile App is also a possibility for this key in the near future.
URL: http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/freshwater_molluscs/
Authors: W.F. Ponder, A. Hallan, M. Shea and S.A. Clark
Prof Yoohan Song
Professor Yoohan Song – Emeritus Professor of Entomology in the Department of Applied Biology, Gyeongsang National University, Korea – is currently visiting Identic. Professor Song has a long association with the Identic team, having collaborated with us on several projects concerning CD/DVD on rice and Korean vegetable pest management. On this occasion Yoohan is working with us and with colleagues at the International Rice Research Institute (Philippines) to update the Rice Doctor diagnostic online key and apps for tropical rice and to discuss the development of a diagnostic key for temperate rice.
A new update to Fact Sheet fusion has just been released. This maintenance update adds a number of minor enhancements and bug fixes.
For more information on these Fact Sheet Fusion updates click here.
To purchase Fact Sheet Fusion click here.
For existing Fact Sheet Fusion v1 licence holders purchase the upgrade here.
The Lucid Mobile platform continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Recently several new exciting features have been added, which will be available in the future for those wishing to deploy their keys as mobile Apps.
We have updated v3.3 Free Edition to cope with further changes to the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). One important change has been to remove the Applet Player deployment option. This option has become untenable due to continual breaking JRE updates and the current lack of direct support for Java Applets in Google Chrome. This is a major reason why we have moved to a JavaScript Player in v3.6. The v3.3 Builder will still allow the deployment of a key with the deployable Application edition of the v.3.3 Player.
Support for v3.4 will officially end in February 2017. If you are using this edition you still have time to upgrade to v3.6 until the end of February. No upgrade pricing from v3.4 to v3.6 will be available after this.
The launch of Lucid v3.6 has been delayed due to a number of recent projects. However, the delay has allowed us to add even more functionality to the new JavaScript edition of the Lucid Player!
We are endeavouring to have the new release finalised and ready late December 2016 or early January 2017.
Lucid Builder Interface
Anyone who purchased v3.5 from September this year will get the v3.6 upgrade for free. Otherwise the upgrade price for existing users of v3.5 will be $360.00.
The first major key to show off the functionality of the new JavaScript based Player is the Australian Freshwater Molluscs key (http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/freshwater_molluscs/).
