A brief history of Recorder
Recorder 3, a DOS-based system, was developed in the late 1980s
by the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and made generally
available in 1992. A review of the package identified the need to
redevelop the software on a more modern database platform and it
was thus redesigned in 2000,2002 and again in 2004, the latter
of which produced the first of the Recorder 6
versions. For more details vist a brief
history of Recorder.
Organisation of Recorder
The Recorder project is led by JNCC,
funded and directed by the Steering Group, informed by the User group, developed by Dorset Software and supported by
JNCC, the Approved Recorder Experts and Dorset Software.
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International Elements
Recorder is used increasingly within Europe, particularly in
Luxembourg and Germany. The Musée national d'histoire
naturelle du Luxembourg (Natural History Museum in Luxembourg) have
developed the Collections Module
to integrate the management of its specimen collections with
observational data. In Germany the Zentrum für
Biodokumentation (ZfB, Centre for Biological Documentation) and
Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN, The Federal Agency for Nature
Conservation) have developed Recorder-D, a German version of
Recorder which is used in FloraWeb; a powerful web-based tool which
provides access to 15 million vascular plant records
in Germany.