**PLOTS Spectral Workbench** is the client software for the [video spectrometer](/wiki/video-spectrometer) ###Links### * [Spectrometry Overview](/tool/spectrometer) * [Applications/uses](/wiki/spectral-analysis) * [Usage](/wiki/spectral-workbench-usage) * [Calibration](/wiki/spectral-workbench-calibration) * [Construction](/wiki/video-spectrometer-construction) * [Troubleshooting/Help](/wiki/spectral-workbench-help) **Update:** The "web client" version of Spectral Workbench is now available for users of Chrome 21 (all platforms) and Opera. If you are able to use this beta release, **you no longer need to download Spectral Workbench** and can simply use the browser-based version. Try it at https://spectralworkbench.org/capture ###What is Spectral Workbench?### The website is a place to archive, share, and interpret spectral data. By uploading spectra to the website, you agree to release the data under a Creative Commons Zero license (the equivalent of a Public Domain dedication), which allows for unrestricted use by anybody. Currently, anyone may comment on any spectrum -- the idea is that users will help one another collect better data, will collaborate on interpreting data, and will build a large shared resource of well-documented spectral data. As the website progresses, we hope to add features such as the ability to average sets of spectra and do pattern-recognition matching of similar spectra. ##Development## The codebase is available at https://github.com/jywarren/spectral-workbench. The server is written in Ruby on Rails, and the capture interface is mostly jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Canvas, and the HTML5 getUserMedia() API. The software is in need of a great deal more work, so if you are interested, please get involved! Contact web@publiclaboratory.org or just ping the mailing list.