Acquisition of Digital Sound Storage and Retrieval System

9977149奖项摘要康奈尔大学鸟类学实验室将利用该奖项帮助将其自然声音库转换为数字存储在DVD光盘上，将其存储在一个巨大的机器人光盘中，并提供直接访问该集合及其相关数据库的互联网。存档的声音将以96 kHz和24位数字化，并以标准DVD格式存储。这有助于以所有用户都可访问的形式进行克隆、备份和分发。数字存储将使新材料的存档率提高5倍，使远程用户检索存档声音和数据的速度提高70倍。康奈尔大学是生物声学培训和研究的主要中心，其自然声音图书馆拥有世界上最大的动物声音收藏。这些收集已经用于基础研究，为保护和管理计划，K-12和大学课程，公共信息工作，以及公共电视和广播，国家地理学会和各种商业公司的媒体制作提供声学普查指南。收藏品的数字化将大大加强目前的所有应用，并使几种新的方法（例如广泛的比较研究）成为可能，而这些方法在磁带存储格式下是不可能的。

9977149 Award AbstractCornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology will use this award to help convert its library of Natural Sounds to digital storage on DVD discs, store them in a giant robotic jukebox, and provide direct internet access to the collection and its associated database. Archived sounds will be digitized at 96 kHz and 24 bits and stored in standard DVD format. This facilitates cloning, backup, and distribution in a form accessible by all users. Digital storage will result in a 5-fold increase in the rate of archiving new materials and a 70-fold improvement in the rate that remote users can retrieve archived sounds and data. Cornell University is a major center for bioacoustics training and research, and its Library of Natural Sounds hosts the world's largest collection of animal sounds. This collection is already used for basic research, generation of acoustical censusing guides for conservation and management programs, K-12 and university courses, public information efforts, and media productions by public television and radio, National Geographic Society, and a variety of commercial firms. Digitization of the collection will significantly enhance all current applications and enable several new approaches (e.g. broad comparative studies) that have been impossible given magnetic tape storage formats.