Biological Records in Essex partnership
since its inception. The Steering Group has agreed to the development of an on-line pilot development by Teknica Ltd, and this was started in November 2007. The project involves close links between the Club, our existing website and the Essex Wildlife Trust, who have agreed to host the BRIE partnership. The product will be a web-based map search and information facility for biological records in Essex. A key feature of the development aims to supply users with a system that provides simplicity, ease of use, speed and access to quality data. As well as a level of public access to data and associated information (adding to that already provided by our website), consultancies, local authorities and other users will be able to access biological data held on the Club’s website either through service level agreements or through an on-line pay-by-search facility. A crucial element of the whole project is to ensure that the recorders on the ground, the County Recorders and the Club all benefit from the systems in place. It is also essential that County Recorders retain control over the data they collate and manage, to ensure its continuing integrity and scientific value.
Our datasearch system has now been demonstrated to the Biological Records In Essex (BRIE) Steering Group with a view to its use to provide data on behalf of the partnership, and it was agreed that we should trial the system before a decision is made at the next meeting on its use for all available county datasets. Datasearch allows to you obtain specialist species reports. Reports are provided as downloadable pdf documents with a csv file option and are customised to an area of your choosing. Please see our Datasearch Terms of Service page for full details. Once you start a request, you can save changes at any time and return to complete this later.
We are working to improve the comprehensiveness of the data provided, but cannot yet offer access to mammal or amphibian & reptile data and for some groups coverage of available data is not yet countywide. We can currently provide access to 1,244,245 records for 11,339 species.