About the Lucid3 Builder

Lucid3 keys are created in the Lucid3 Builder. Using the Builder, an expert in a group of entities (plants, animals, diseases, minerals, archaeological artefacts etc) creates interactive, random-access keys that can be deployed over the World Wide Web or CD.

The basic elements of a Lucid3 key are -

• a list of entities

• a list of features and states that may be used to describe those entities

• a matrix of score data for the features associated with each of the entities

• various attachments (images, web pages etc) for the entities and features, to provide extra information to users.

The Lucid3 Builder provides all the tools necessary to create the entity and feature lists, encode the score data, and attach information files to items.

For more information on the Lucid3 Builder, visit the Lucidcentral website at www.lucidcentral.org.