Meeting: Advancing the Accessibility of Data for Behavioral Research in the 21st Century; Ithaca, NY - Summer, 2016

数字时代为数据存储和访问创造了新的机会，导致了一种开放数据共享的氛围和期望，这将使更广泛的科学界受益。对于动物行为领域，数据共享和访问面临着一系列挑战，这是因为收集和使用了大量的数据类型，需要解决标准，以及归档一些关键数据类型的共同战略。例如，视听记录需要相当长的处理时间、大文件的大存储容量、丰富的描述性元数据，以及随着技术的变化不断向新格式迁移。因此，这些行为数据仍然处于令人望而却步的低级管理之下，生物研究界基本上无法获取。然而，与此同时，生物学家和其他研究人员正在收集大量这样的数据，随着记录技术变得更加复杂和廉价，这种趋势正在增加。如果数字媒体存档的挑战得不到解决，这些数据通常仍将无法获取。该奖项为2016年在康奈尔鸟类学实验室举办的研讨会提供资金。会议将汇集多个相关领域的专家，讨论与动物行为和生理学研究相关的样本的保存和获取问题。来自几个利益相关者社区的代表和专家将聚集在一起，记录使行为数据广泛可访问的挑战，并制定一个确定关键问题优先顺序的框架。成果将在一份白皮书和一份正式出版物中公布。这次会议将与制定强调使用数字媒体的公民科学项目的方法和途径有关。研究生和博士后将参加会议本身，提供宝贵的经验，并加强他们在数据归档和获取方面的培训和背景。

The digital era has created new opportunities for data storage and access, leading to an atmosphere and expectation for open data sharing that will benefit the broader scientific community. For the field of animal behavior, data sharing and access presents a range of challenges due to the collection and use of numerous data types, the need to address standards, and a common strategy for archiving some key data types. For example, audiovisual recordings require substantial "hands on" time for processing, large storage capacity for large files, rich descriptive metadata, and constant migration to new formats as technologies change. As a consequence, these behavioral data remain prohibitively under-curated and broadly inaccessible to the biological research community. Yet, at the same time, biologists and other researchers are collecting vast amounts of such data, and this trend is increasing as recording technologies become more sophisticated and inexpensive. These data will remain generally inaccessible if the challenges of archiving digital media are not addressed. This award funds a workshop to be held at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in 2016. The meeting will bring together experts from a number of relevant fields to discuss preservation and accessibility of samples relevant to research on animal behavior and physiology. Representatives and experts from several stakeholder communities will come together to document the challenges of making behavioral data broadly accessible, and to develop a framework that prioritizes the key issues. Outcomes will be published in a white paper and a formal publication. The meeting will be relevant to the development of methods and approaches to citizen science projects that emphasize the use of digital media. Graduate students and postdocs will participate in the meeting itself, providing a valuable experience and enhancing their training and background in data archiving and accessibility.