Meeting: Advancing the Accessibility of Digital Media for Biological Research in the 21st Century

会议：推进 21 世纪生物研究数字媒体的可访问性

基本信息

批准号：
1451374
负责人：
Michael Webster
金额：
$ 1.7万
依托单位：
Cornell University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2014-09-01 至 2015-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1451374&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Meeting Advancing Accessibility Digital Media

项目摘要

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology will convene a meeting of experts and stakeholders to address the challenges of archiving audiovisual data for the biological sciences. Audiovisual data useful to modern biological research (a.k.a. "media specimens") are recordings (audio, video, still images) of organisms in their natural habitats, collected by researchers and citizen scientists to create records of observations of biodiversity and animal behavior. Standards and best practices have not been widely adopted for such audiovisual data, particularly in the biological sciences, and most existing data archives and biological research collections lack the expertise and infrastructure to manage it. 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, such that large scale research projects are based in part or in whole on media data (e.g., bioacoustic monitoring projects). Audiovisual data (audio and video 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. Participants in the meeting will develop a white paper that addresses explicitly the challenges of making audiovisual data broadly accessible and provide a framework that identifies and prioritizes key steps to reduce the likelihood of the loss of important data. Finally, several graduate students and postdocs will participate in the meeting itself, thereby providing a valuable experience and enhancing their training and background in data archiving and accessibility.

康奈尔大学鸟类学实验室将召开一次专家和利益相关者会议，以解决生物科学视听数据归档的挑战。对现代生物学研究有用的视听数据（又称“媒体样本”）是自然栖息地中生物体的记录（音频、视频、静态图像），由研究人员和公民科学家收集，用于创建生物多样性和动物行为的观察记录。此类视听数据的标准和最佳实践尚未得到广泛采用，特别是在生物科学领域，并且大多数现有数据档案和生物研究收藏缺乏管理这些数据的专业知识和基础设施。与此同时，生物学家和其他研究人员正在收集大量此类数据，并且随着记录技术变得更加复杂和廉价，这种趋势正在增加，使得大型研究项目部分或全部基于媒体数据（例如，生物声学监测项目）。视听数据（音频和视频记录）需要大量的“实际操作”时间来处理、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迁移到新格式。会议参与者将制定一份白皮书，明确解决使视听数据广泛访问所面临的挑战，并提供一个框架来确定关键步骤并确定其优先顺序，以减少重要数据丢失的可能性。最后，一些研究生和博士后将参加会议本身，从而提供宝贵的经验并增强他们在数据归档和可访问性方面的培训和背景。