Implementation of Audubon Core in ABCD with proposal of new terms for audio and video facts
Droege, G. & Grobe, P.
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
Freie Universität Berlin
Background
• BiNHum (Biodiversity Network of Humboldt‐
Ring, DFG project)
shared portal for 6 Museums/Research Institutions in Germany based on BioCASe/ABCD
• e.g. large collections of animal sound files
(grasshoppers, birds)
 BiNHum talk tomorrow morning!
Background
• ABCD2.06 ‐> development of ABCD2.1
– Larger multimedia part
– Several changes in main ABCD part
– Will be used in special interest networks, such as
BiNHum or GGBN; not to be used for GBIF
 Will be substituted by ABCD3.0 in 2017 (DFG project started 10/2014)
 ABCD Session tomorrow morning!
AC terms in ABCD
• Use main ABCD part for non multimedia facts
of Audubon Core (scientific name, geography)
• Most of existing AC terms already in Multimedia part of ABCD 2.06 included (but different names)
AC terms in ABCD
• Review of existing multimedia standards
– EXIF, EDM, MIX, XMP, IPTC, AC
– AES, MD, iXML
– MPEG‐7, VideoMD, VideoObject, NewsML‐G2, EMA
Alignment of different terms (where possible)
1. image, audio and video standards separately
2. review by BiNHum partners which terms are
important to be included e.g. in ABCD/AC
3. Alignment between reviewed lists image, audio and
video terms
AC terms in ABCD
~ 90 new terms for Multimedia proposed
http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/CODATA/Schem
a/ABCD_2.1/ABCD_2.1.html
AC terms in ABCD
• General terms
– Creator, fileformat, taxaInBackground etc.
• Specific terms
– Image
• lensModel, f_Number, whiteBalance
– Audio
• microphone, channel, soundBitrate, callType
– Video
• videoEncoding, videoBitrate
[…]
General Multimedia Terms
Example Image
• Virtual Herbarium Berlin
EXIF data
(c) Creators & BGBM cc‐
by‐sa 3.0
New terms for Images
(c) Creators & BGBM cc‐by‐sa 3.0
Typical EXIF data can be easily extracted from
media file into a database  available for a mapping
Image terms
lensModel, focalLength, focalLengthIn35mmFilm, lightSource, flash flashEnergy, f_Number, whiteBalance, digitalZoomRatio, contrast, saturation, sharpness, gamma, imageColorSpace, imageSize, imageResolution, exposureTime, exposureMode, spectralSensitivity, photographicSensitivity, ISOSpeed, shutterSpeed, brightness, color, thumbnailURI
Example Audio
(c) lakecountynature.com
(c) Nikki Peters
 Combination of
Image and Sound files
Audio terms
microphone, channel, duration, durationTimeCode, compression, codecName, codecQuality, samplingFrequency, version, audioEncoding, sampleRate, soundBitrate, parabola, carrierFrequency, pulseRepetitionRate, pulseLength, pulseFrequencyContour, pulseEnergyContour, pulseTimeEncodedSignal, pulseMaximumAmplitude, pulseFrequenceModulations, pulseDistanceRegularity, pulseGrouping, speed, pitch, volume, callType, numberOfNotes, chapters
Example Video
(c) Gabi Droege cc‐by‐sa 3.0
Video terms
microphone, lensModel, lightSource, channels, duration, durationTimeCode, compressionType, version, audioEncoding, soundBitrate, aspectRatio, videoEncoding, videoBitrate, framerate, timeCompression, color, thumbnailURI, imageSize, callType, numberOfNotes, subtitles, subtitlesFormat, chapters
Summary
• Massive digitization efforts in natural history
collections
• Massive photogaphing and videotyping
related to observation records
• Existing standards for image, audio and video
available
 Inclusion of a valuable set of new multimedia
terms into Audubon Core proposed