A Digital Rich Media Library of Animal Behavior

这一藏书项目将Macaulay图书馆的独特资源作为NSDL的一个新部分在线。麦考利图书馆是康奈尔鸟类学实验室的一个部门，是世界上最大的开放式动物行为和自然历史记录储存库。动物行为是一个对世界各地的人来说本质上很有趣的话题，很容易被招募到丰富、娱乐、启迪和教育广泛和多方面的受众的活动中。它也是当前研究、保护和公共意识项目的一个关键焦点。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来预览记录，然后才能找到他们想要的具体例子。除上述原因外，该项目的智力优势还包括：a)将Macaulay图书馆连接到NSDL的接口，b)允许远程专家将记录中的每个事件和对象登录到我们的元数据的在线注释工具，以及c)允许用户搜索带注释和认证的数据库的查询工具，直接移动到符合他们的查询的记录的那些部分，然后编辑和汇编适当的记录片段以供交付。注释和查询工具集都包括新的可视化和交互式地图功能，这些功能极大地提高了集合的可访问性，即使是新手用户也可以访问。广泛的影响：这个新的NSDL集合促进了更多的发现(因为直接移动到记录中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特定的和经过验证的示例)、教学(因为教育人员可以快速在线生成定制的媒体集)、保护(因为世界各地的野生动物管理人员可以获得用于培训或生物多样性评估的样本)、研究(因为科学家可以快速且低成本地访问到迄今为止不可能的样本大小)，普通公众(因为媒体可以快速获得经过验证的故事示例)和基础设施(因为这里提出的技术在其他富媒体收藏中有非常广泛的应用)。这个独特的项目使世界上任何地方的所有这些目标都变得更容易、更快、更有效。它为NSDL增加了一个全新的维度，而且它以一种最大化其实用性和我们不同用户的访问的方式做到了这一点。该项目整合了康奈尔大学在国际上享有盛名的动物行为、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业界合作的悠久传统，在这种情况下，是通过与EMC 2公司、Apple Computer和Video Bank建立合作伙伴关系。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，使麦考利图书馆处于承担这一任务的独特地位。

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.