On the 5th of February 2016, the kickoff meeting for the DigiBird project took place at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. These are the slides that accompanied this meeting. Every partner involved was presented by one of its representatives and was introduced with a few slides.
4. Bird species & sounds
Naturalis and Xeno-canto
as partners in DigiBird
Sander Pieterse
@zzherc
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Xeno-canto Foundation for Nature Sounds
• DigiBird kick-off meeting / Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum / February 5, 2016
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center
“To describe, understand and explain biodiversity,
for the wellbeing of mankind and the sustainability
of earth’s nature.”
(using 37 million dead things in glass jars)
6. Birds in Dutch Species Catalog
National thesaurus of multicellular species
observed in The Netherlands since 1758
www.nederlandsesoorten.nl
7. Xeno-canto Foundation for Nature
Sounds
•Popularising bird sounds & sound recording
worldwide
•Improving access to bird sounds
•Increasing the knowledge of bird sounds
•Opening up the recordings for enjoyment,
education, conservation and science
8. Our medium: a crowd-sourced web database
www.xeno-canto.org
Global community platform for sharing
and studying bird sounds
Shared goal: building the complete
sound guide
17. MORE DATA
•Some of the nature footage
creators released their material as
open content
•Over 500 clips available through
Open Images/Wikimedia
Commons
19. VIDEO LABELLING GAME
• Allows internet users to annotate audiovisual archive material in the form of a
(serious) game
• The goal of the game is consensus between players
• Fun and competition as motivation
20. SPOTVOGEL
• Based on the Vroege Vogels (‘Early Birds’) nature series by NL public broadcaster VARA
(also a partner in the project)
• Collaboration with Naturalis, utilizing their Dutch Species Catalogue for matching the
social tags to an authoritative taxonomy
• Targeted the online community of interest associated with the series (thousands of active
online forum contributors, on the programme website)
32. Digibird proposal
• COMMIT/ valorisation project
• Started writing December 2014
• Continuation of SEALINCMedia project
• € 27,500,- in-kind € 22,500,- matched by COMMIT/
• New partner:
33. Main deliverables
• Collection integration
• API - Embed your birds on partner sites
• Demonstrator
• Lure birdwatchers to crowdsourcing initiatives
34. Timeline
Jun-16 Jul-16 Aug-16 Sep-16 Oct-16
Set up Waisda?
Start tracking
Extend website
Jun-16 - Jul-16
Datamodels
System architecture
Decide birdlist
Jul-16 - Aug-16
Conversion
Infrastructure
Aug-16 - Sep-16
APIs
Embed content on sites
Sep-16 - Oct-16
Mockups prototype
Oct-16 - Nov-16
Prototype
1 May 2016
31 October 2016
