Annals of Botany 89: 650-651, 2002
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Lucid Professional Version 2.0: tools for identification and diagnosis. Centre for Pest Information Technology & Transfer.
Lucid Professional Version 2·0: tools for identification and diagnosis.
Centre for Pest Information Technology & Transfer.
The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072,Australia.
AUS$495.
Lucid Professional Version 2·0: tools for identification and diagnosis is described by its authors as a system for developing and distributing multimedia tools for identification diagnosis and other purposes.
At the heart of this system is software that allows the construction and use of computerized interactive identification keys. These keys differ from the traditional dichotomous variety in their multi-access character. Rather than having to answer questions to key couplets and so follow a prescribed route, the user of an interactive key is able to adopt different strategies in identifying a specimen. One may choose to answer questions only about the characters that are easily observable in the specimen being identified, or