Monday, April 13, 2009

Specify 6 Launched

We are truly living in a remarkable time where information technology is evolving extremely rapidly. The result of this progress is an explosion in data. As of April 10th, Specify 6 was launched. Specify 6 is an open source computing program made freely available for download. With Specify, institutions such as natural history collections will be able to better manage their data and make it freely available to others around the world. Hopefully it will catch on and become a valuable tool for georeferenced collections as well as a multitude of other uses I'm sure.