A Digital Rich Media Library of Animal Behavior

这个收藏项目带来了麦考利图书馆在线作为NSDL的一个新的部分独特的资源。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式知识库。动物行为是一个对世界各地的人们来说本质上很有趣的话题，很容易被招募到丰富，娱乐，启发和教育广泛和多方面观众的活动中。它也是当前研究，保护和公众意识计划的重点。由于声音和视频记录通常包含多个感兴趣的事件和对象，传统长格式档案的用户必须花费数小时预览记录，然后才能找到他们想要的特定示例。除了上述原因外，该项目的智力价值还包括开发：a）将Macaulay图书馆链接到NSDL的接口，B）允许远程专家将记录内的每个事件和对象登录到我们的元数据中的在线注释工具，以及c）允许用户搜索注释和认证的数据库的查询工具，直接移动到适合其查询的记录的那些部分，然后编辑和组装记录的适当片段以供交付。注释和查询工具集都包括新颖的可视化和交互式映射功能，即使是新手用户也可以极大地增强集合的可访问性。更广泛的影响：这一新的NSDL集合促进了更多的发现（由于直接移动到记录内的给定位置的搜索比预览整个电影剪辑快得多），理解（因为任何行为主题都可以立即访问具体和经过验证的示例），（因为教育工作者可以快速地在线制作定制的媒体集），养护（因为世界各地的野生动物管理人员可以获得样本用于培训或生物多样性评估），（因为科学家可以快速和低成本地获得迄今为止不可能获得的样本量），一般公众（因为媒体可以快速地获得故事的经认证的示例）和基础设施（因为这里提出的技术对其他丰富媒体集合具有非常广泛的应用）。这个独特的项目使所有这些目标更容易，更快，更有效地从世界上任何地方。它为NSDL增加了一个全新的维度，并且它以一种最大化其效用和我们不同用户访问的方式实现了这一点。该项目整合了康奈尔大学在国际上受人尊敬的动物行为，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的悠久历史基础上，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 2 Corporation，Apple Computer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，使麦考利图书馆独特的定位来承担这项任务。

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.