A Digital Rich Media Library of Animal Behavior

这个馆藏项目将麦考利图书馆的独特资源作为国家图书馆的一个新组成部分引入网络。麦考利图书馆是康奈尔鸟类学实验室的一个部门，是世界上最大的动物行为和自然历史记录的开放存储库。动物行为对全世界的人来说都是一个本质上有趣的话题，并且很容易被纳入丰富、娱乐、启发和教育广泛而多方面的受众的倡议中。它也是当前研究、保护和公众意识项目的重点。由于声音和视频记录通常包含多个事件和感兴趣的对象，传统长格式档案的用户必须花费数小时预览记录，才能找到他们想要的特定示例。除了上面列出的原因，这个项目的智力价值还包括：a)连接Macaulay Library和NSDL的接口，b)在线注释工具，允许远程专家登录我们的元数据，记录中的每个事件和对象，c)查询工具，允许用户搜索注释和认证的数据库，直接移动到录音中适合他们查询的部分，然后编辑和组装合适的录音片段以供交付。注释和查询工具集都包括新的可视化和交互式映射特性，这些特性大大增强了该集合的可访问性，即使是新手用户也可以使用。更广泛的影响:这个新的NSDL收藏促进了更多的发现（因为直接移动到录音中的给定位置的搜索比预览整个电影剪辑要快得多），理解（因为任何行为主题都可以立即访问特定和经过验证的示例），教学（因为教育者可以快速在线制作定制的媒体集），保护（因为全球野生动物管理人员可以获得培训或生物多样性评估的示例），研究（因为科学家可以快速和低成本地获得迄今为止不可能的样本大小），公众（因为媒体可以快速获得故事的经过验证的例子）和基础设施（因为这里提出的技术在其他富媒体集合中有非常广泛的应用）。这个独特的项目使所有这些目标在世界上任何地方都更容易、更快速、更有效。它为NSDL增加了一个全新的维度，并以一种最大化其效用和不同用户访问的方式做到了这一点。该项目整合了康奈尔大学国际知名的动物行为学、自然历史博物馆、教育、生物声学和计算机科学社区。它还建立在康奈尔大学教职员工参与NSDL的悠久历史之上，并遵循康奈尔大学与行业之间的长期合作传统，在这种情况下，通过与EMC公司，苹果电脑和VideoBank的合作伙伴关系。这些历史，加上作为康奈尔鸟类学实验室的一部分所提供的独特的经济可持续性，使麦考利图书馆具有独特的地位来承担这项任务。

This collections project brings the unique resources of the Macaulay Library online as a new part of the NSDL. The Macaulay Library, a division of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, is the world's largest open repository of recordings of animal behavior and natural history. Animal behavior is a topic that is intrinsically interesting to people worldwide and is easily recruited into initiatives that enrich, entertain, enlighten, and educate a broad and multifaceted audience. It is also a key focus of current research, conservation, and public awareness programs. Because sound and video recordings typically contain multiple events and objects of interest, users of traditional long-format archives must spend hours previewing recordings before finding the specific examples they want. In addition to the reasons listed above, the intellectual merit of this project involves the development of: a) the interfaces linking the Macaulay Library to the NSDL, b) online annotation tools that allow remote experts to log into our metadata each event and object within a recording, and c) query tools that allow users to search the annotated and authenticated database, move directly to those portions of a recording that fit their query, and then edit and assemble suitable segments of recordings for delivery. The annotation and query tool sets both include novel new visualization and interactive mapping features that greatly enhance the accessibility of the collection to even novice users.Broader Impact: This new NSDL collection promotes increased discovery (since searches that move directly to a given location inside a recording are much faster than previewing entire film clips), understanding (since specific and authenticated examples are immediately accessible for any behavioral topic), teaching (since educators can quickly produce customized media sets online), conservation (since wildlife management staff worldwide can obtain exemplars for training or biodiversity assessment), research (since scientists can rapidly and at low cost access sample sizes that have hitherto been impossible), the general public (since the media can obtain authenticated examples for stories quickly), and infrastructure (since the technology proposed here has very broad applications to other rich media collections). This unique project makes all of those goals easier, faster, and effective from any location in the world. It adds a whole new dimension to the NSDL, and it does so in a way that maximizes its utility and access by our diverse users. This project integrates the internationally respected animal behavior, natural history museum, education, bioacoustics, and computer science communities at Cornell University. It also builds on the long history of NSDL involvement by Cornell University staff and faculty, and follows a long tradition of collaboration between Cornell and industry, in this case through partnerships with the EMC 2 Corporation, Apple Computer, and VideoBank. These histories, plus the unique economic sustainability afforded by being part of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, make the Macaulay Library uniquely positioned to undertake this task.