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

会议：促进 21 世纪行为研究数据的可获取性；

• 批准号: 1555565
• 负责人: Michael Webster
• 金额: $ 4.9万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1555565&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Meeting; Advancing; Accessibility; Data; Behavioral

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.

数字时代为数据存储和访问创造了新的机会，形成了开放数据共享的氛围和期望，这将有利于更广泛的科学界。对于动物行为领域，由于大量数据类型的收集和使用、制定标准的需要以及归档某些关键数据类型的通用策略，数据共享和访问提出了一系列挑战。 例如，视听记录需要大量的“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。因此，这些行为数据仍然没有得到充分的管理，并且生物研究界普遍无法获取这些数据。 然而，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。如果不解决数字媒体归档的挑战，这些数据通常将无法访问。该奖项资助 2016 年在康奈尔大学鸟类学实验室举办的研讨会。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可获取性。来自多个利益相关者社区的代表和专家将齐聚一堂，记录广泛获取行为数据所面临的挑战，并制定一个优先考虑关键问题的框架。结果将在白皮书和正式出版物中发布。这次会议将涉及强调数字媒体使用的公民科学项目的方法和途径的开发。研究生和博士后将参加会议本身，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。