Creating Metadata Standards for Animal Behavior: Conference Feb 2004

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

Numerous databases, rich media archives, and educational projects focused onanimal behavior are now Internet-accessible. However, each site has adoptedits own vocabulary for cataloging its resources and there is currently nomechanism to translate between them. This project funds two successiveworkshops to create an international metadata standard that will allow usersto search across all of these sites and locate similar resources regardlessof local catalog names and structures. The meetings will convene experts inanimal behavior, zoo management, conservation, and metadata architecture tocreate a draft standard and design protocols for crosstalk between eachdatabase and the standard. The drafts will be circulated through relevantnewsletters, journals, and at society meetings worldwide for review andcomment. The second workshop will pool comments from all of these sourcesinto a final draft to be mounted on multiple websites and advertised insuitable journals. This project is a key step towards providing worldwidebut integrated access to the increasing diversity of animal behaviorarchives by students, educators, researchers, conservation and wildlifemanagement staff, zoos and aquaria, and both public and commercial media.