Living Record
Living Record is a third-party application for biological recording developed and promoted by mc² Data Innovation Limited. You can submit and view your records using maps and satellite imagery and a standardised recording form.
If you are not already using it, this is no longer the route preferred by the Hampshire BSBI recorders for receiving records. The proprietor / developer is terminating ongoing development and support for it. It is not as versatile or as well optimised for botanical recording as the BSBI Recording App, and it reguires manual intervention by the recorders to extract the data and get it to the BSBI's national Distribution Database (DDb). It does have the advantage of supporting multiple species groups, and for that reason we shall continue to handle records from existing users. But if you are a polymath recorder, you may like to consider using the NBN's iRecord app as an alternative, where your records will be automatically picked up by the BSBI.
EXISTING USER? Click this button to open a new page onto Living Record, and log in.
IMPORTANT: how we use your data
By submitting your plant records, you agree that:
- The BSBI recorders in Hampshire may hold your records on databases.
- Your records may be shared with other members of the recording community in Hampshire and with the BSBI nationally. Nationally, they may be used in national recording schemes and held on the BSBI central Distribution Database. Access to full record details on this database is currently restricted to authorised users, but national policy may change over time.
- Summary details of your records, not including your name, will be used to feed data to this web site.
- The BSBI recorders may pass records to third parties in the county (including the Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre and the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust) and use them in publications.