Spotter 1.0

We’ve released a new version of Spotter, our Firefox plug-in for semantic eco-blogging. Launching Spotter brings up a form that prompts for values such as reporter, observer, taxon, common name, lat, long, etc. Upon form submission, the user is given the URI of the RDF record that was created from her input. This URI can then be used to link to the RDF from a blog post. (This is what we’ve been doing on the Fieldmarking blog – click on the owls to view RDF.) The plug-in can also be used to provide RDF annotation to someone else’s image, either on a blog or on a photo-sharing site.

More background on our eco-blogging effort is here

You can download Spotter here

The new version supports default values, and includes a map-based lat/long finder. Comments and suggestions are very welcome.