PLOTS Spectral Workbench is the client software for the video spectrometer

Links

• Spectrometry Overview
• Applications/uses
• Usage
• Calibration
• Construction
• Troubleshooting/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.