Indicia is now even easier
You will hopefully have already heard about Indicia through the NBN website, you may already have used it.
Indicia is a toolkit that simplifies the construction of new websites which allow data entry, mapping and reporting of wildlife records. It’s not a finished online survey website – think of Indicia as a kit car as opposed to a manufactured car. You get the wheels, engine and all the important tricky bits ready-made, but you still have to assemble the parts.
Instant Indicia is a new product and is the quickest way to build websites using Indicia. Instant Indicia provides Indicia functionality already integrated into a content management system alongside the other tools needed to build online recording websites. You simply select from the list of “features” you want to enable on your website – input forms, reports, maps, verification etc – and Instant Indicia does the rest.
More specifically, Instant Indicia is an extension of the Drupal content management system for building online recording websites. Once installed, the basis of an online recording site can be built simply by selecting from a number of ready-made building blocks and performing a few configuration tasks.
An indepth tutorial is now available for Instant Indicia and this can be downloaded below, along with the installation kit:
Instant Indicia Drupal installation kit
You can find out more about online recording and Drupal in the online recording area of the website.
A number of organisations are already using Indicia, so please see the examples below for how it can look.
RISC
British Dragonfly Society
Plantlife
Nature Spot
Indicia and Instant Indicia are funded through the OPAL project
