Keys available for preview in Lucid3 On-Line player ...

	Cut Flower Exports of Africa
	Aquarium and Pond Plants of the World
	Tropical Forages
	Insect Orders
	Families of Flowering Plants of Australia
	Stiletto-flies of Australasia (Diptera: Therevidae)

CBIT gratefully acknowledges the authors and organisations who have allowed the use of their keys in this demonstration.

Announcing the New Lucid3 On-Line Player

The Lucid team is pleased to announce the development of a new generation identification player – the Lucid3 On-line Player. The Online Player joins the other two Player options for Lucid3 keys – the Lucid3 Application Player and the Lucid3 Applet – to provide a great service to our clients and your end-users.

Lucid Online Player

Features of the Lucid On-line Player:

Requires no special plugins in your browser – anyone can use it immediately.
Deployed server-side and written using the latest web 2.0 technology.
Compatible across browsers, running on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc. Since only a browser is required, it will run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux Solaris, etc.
Supports the international Standard for Descriptive Data (SDD) data format.

For answers to other queries you might have, please visit the FAQ Section below (or contact us at - enquiries@lucidcentral.org).

Note that this is a pre-release announcement of the Lucid3 On-line Player. A full release to Lucid3 key developers will occur at a later stage with the implementation of more features, including:

Subsets, Pruning, Scoping, Differences
Further performance optimisation
Automatic deployment of keys from the Lucid3 Builder to the Lucid3 On-line Player
Server side key management, allowing keys to be uploaded and deleted and user access control.

The Lucid3 On-line Player has been pre-released at this stage is to give you the opportunity to provide feedback. For instance, did you experience any problems in accessing the keys or do you have suggestions on how the On-line Player might be improved? Please send your suggestions to enquiries@lucidcentral.org.

FAQ's

Q. Will this run from a CD?
A. No, this technology requires a web server to work. For CD deployment of keys there is still the application and applet edition of the Lucid Player available.

Q. Will this run on my PDA or cell phone?
A. Short answer - yes, if it has a browser. We've already tested it on an iPhone - a couple of minor interface issues but very cool! In the near future we plan to create a custom interface for small screen devices. As this relies on an Internet connection we are still pursuing a stand-alone mobile device edition of the Lucid Player.

Q. What kind of server would I need to run this?
A. The Lucid On-line Player has been developed to run under just about any server technology. The player uses Tomcat and Java based technologies. For example it will run under Linux/Apache or a Windows Server/IIS environment.

Q. How many users can run a key at once?
A. The Lucid On-line Player has been designed to shift much of the processing to the client web browser. This dramatically reduces the load on the server. The server then just needs to deal with passing the key data across to the browser, which is only done on demand. It also has to serve media and html fact sheet pages that may be associated with the key. Therefore potentially many thousands of users can use a key at any one time, though of course this would depend on your server specification and available bandwidth etc.

Screenshots

Online image gallery	online search
Online "Why Discard"	Online factsheet