Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6295721 | Ecological Informatics | 2016 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
A structure was developed for organizing acoustic metadata in a consistent manner, specifying required and optional terms to describe acoustic information derived from a recording. A client-server database was created to implement this data representation as a networked data service that can be accessed from several programming languages. Support for data import from a wide variety of sources such as spreadsheets and databases is provided. The implementation was extended to access Internet-available data products, permitting access to a variety of environmental information types (e.g. sea surface temperature, sunrise/sunset, etc.) from a wide range of sources as if they were part of the data service. This metadata service is in use at several institutions and has been used to track and analyze millions of acoustic detections from marine mammals, fish, elephants, and anthropogenic sound sources.
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Authors
Marie A. Roch, Heidi Batchelor, Simone Baumann-Pickering, Catherine L. Berchok, Danielle Cholewiak, Ei Fujioka, Ellen C. Garland, Sean Herbert, John A. Hildebrand, Erin M. Oleson, Sofie Van Parijs, Denise Risch, Ana Å iroviÄ, Melissa S. Soldevilla,