Database design for an archive of animal sounds

Author

Nelson, Douglas A. ; Gaunt, Sandra L L ; Bronson, C.L. ; Kloth, Timothy J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Evolution Ecology & Organ. Biol., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA

Volume

20

Issue

3

fYear

2001

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

80

Abstract

Attached to several museums worldwide are sound archives, units dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making available to others recordings of animal sounds. In the case of the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics (BLB) at The Ohio State University, most recordings in the archive are the products of research by staff and students. The users of the collection include scientists, governmental agencies, and commercial enterprises. In this article we describe our efforts to build a modern database that describes the sound recordings in our care at the BLB.

Keywords

bioacoustics; biology computing; database management systems; exhibitions; humanities; information resources; scientific information systems; zoology; Internet interface; animal sound recordings; archive of animal sounds; background screen; database design; digital project; natural history museums; vovalization screen; Animals; Biomedical acoustics; Birds; Databases; Educational institutions; Evolution (biology); History; Insects; Laboratories; Organisms; Animals; Databases, Factual; Information Storage and Retrieval; Internet; Tape Recording; Vocalization, Animal;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0739-5175

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/51.932729

Filename

932729