Lucid

Lucid tools are powerful and highly flexible knowledge management software applications designed to help users with identification or diagnostic tasks.

Lucid software is a special type of expert system, specifically designed for identification and diagnostic purposes, which enables expert knowledge to be “cloned” and distributed to a wide audience via CD or the Internet. The large number of functions incorporated in the software and the ability to include multi-media makes the creation and use of identification and diagnostic keys easy, effective and enjoyable.

Lucid identification keys are currently being used by a wide range of end-users, from high school and university students to taxonomists, quarantine identifiers, biodiversity scientists and conservation managers.

The Lucid toolkit currently includes matrix key development packages - Lucid3 - and a dichotomous key conversion and development package - Lucid Phoenix - as well as a number of specific utilities designed to facilitate the development of identification or diagnostic keys.