Spectral Workbench

PLOTS Spectral Workbench is the client software for our open source spectrometer

Links

• Usage
• Spectrometry overview
• Applications/uses
• Calibration
• Construction
  • Desktop Spectrometry Kit
  • Foldable Mini-Spectrometer
• Troubleshooting/Help

Update: The "web client" version of Spectral Workbench works for users of Chrome and Opera. You no longer need to download Spectral Workbench and can simply use the browser-based version. Try it at http://spectralworkbench.org

What is Spectral Workbench?

SpectralWorkbench.org 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.