Spotter allows you to easily create RDF/OWL for species observations. It places a button on your Firefox toolbar that calls up a form with fields taken from our observation ontology (Observer, Reporter, Location, Common Name, Scientific Name, etc.). Upon submitting the form, an OWL observation record is created and stored on our server. You are presented with a link to the record, which you can then link to from your blog.

To install the firefox extension, click here: Install SPOTTER!

Once it's installed, you'll notice that there are a few changes to your browser UI:

Under "Tools", you'll see (1) "Spotter Options..." and (2) "Report a nature observation with Spotter".

• (1) is where the UI for setting default values for reporter, observer, etc. are
• (2) is where you can launch the spotter form and submit an observation.

To quickly access the default value preferences, you can click on the little spotted owl at the bottom right of your browser window.

To quickly launch observation form, perform the following steps. Right click on your menu bar or tool bar and click on "Customize...". You will see another (half-hidden) spotted owl with the label "Report nature observation with Spotter". Drag the owl onto your tool bar, say, to the right of your homepage icon. Now the button is on your browser tool bar, clicking on it will launch the form.