Creating Metadata Standards for Animal Behavior: Conference Feb 2004

许多数据库、富媒体档案和关注动物行为的教育项目现在都可以在互联网上访问。然而，每个网站都采用了自己的词汇来编目其资源，目前存在着在它们之间进行翻译的命名机制。该项目资助了两个成功的讲习班，以创建一个国际元数据标准，使用户能够在所有这些网站上搜索并找到类似的资源，而不管当地的目录名称和结构如何。会议将召集动物行为、动物园管理、保护和元数据架构方面的专家，为每个数据库和标准之间的串扰创建标准草案和设计协议。草案将通过相关通讯、期刊和世界各地的社会会议分发，以供审查和评论。第二期讲习班将汇集所有这些来源的意见，形成最终草案，在多个网站上刊登，并为不合适的期刊做广告。该项目是为学生、教育工作者、研究人员、保护和野生动物管理人员、动物园和水族馆以及公共和商业媒体提供世界范围内日益多样化的动物行为档案的关键一步。

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.