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## About the Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database |
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% About Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database (2018 Remaster) |
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See the about page at [0][Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution] for a detailed description of the database. |
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## About the Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database |
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See the about page at [Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution][whoi.about] for a detailed description of the database. |
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[0][https://whoicf2.whoi.edu/science/B/whalesounds/about.cfm] |
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[whoi.about]: https://whoicf2.whoi.edu/science/B/whalesounds/about.cfm |
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## About the Remaster |
## About the Remaster |
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This project aims to make the 15,000 annotated digital sound clips accessible fo |
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The current (2018) WHOI website is very limited in its features to explore sound clips and recordings. |
The current (2018) WHOI website is very limited in its features to explore sound clips and recordings. |
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Most of the detailed metadata, that describe all sound clips, can not be used as search filters and are hardly explained. |
Most of the detailed metadata, that describe all sound clips, can not be used as search filters and are hardly explained. |
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As the [0][about page] states: |
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As the [about page][whoi.about] states: |
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> Due to the outdated and nonstandard format of the metadata, letters and codes may appear in some of the tables. These codes are described in the publication of the original DOS-based database. |
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> Due to the outdated and nonstandard format of the metadata, letters and codes may appear in some of the tables. |
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> These codes are described in the publication of the original DOS-based database. |
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Cleaning up that metadata is therefor one of the main tasks of this project. |
Cleaning up that metadata is therefor one of the main tasks of this project. |
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All sound clips, recordings and metadata can be directly downloaded or scraped f |
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### Project Outline |
### Project Outline |
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Achiving the goal means: |
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Implementing the goal means: |
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- Understanding what questions and requirements researchers have |
- Understanding what questions and requirements researchers have |
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- What the data contains to offer answers |
- What the data contains to offer answers |
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Achiving the goal means: |
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#### Requirements |
#### Requirements |
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- A researcher needs to be confident, that that data is accurate. |
- A researcher needs to be confident, that that data is accurate. |
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The transformation should not introduce errors, and if any occure they should be documented. |
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The transformation should not introduce errors, and if any occur they should be documented. |
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- A researcher needs to be able to reproduce the data transformation |
- A researcher needs to be able to reproduce the data transformation |
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- A researcher needs to reference a specific state of the (transformed) data |
- A researcher needs to reference a specific state of the (transformed) data |
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The following outlines the to-do's of the project. |
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- Extract, normalize and transform all information from the database |
- Extract, normalize and transform all information from the database |
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- Document the details of the database contents |
- Document the details of the database contents |
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- Develop and document the data transformation process as fully reproducable open source code |
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- Develop the data transformation process as open source code |
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- Document all steps required to reproduce the resulting data |
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- Make all transformed data available as versioned download |
- Make all transformed data available as versioned download |
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- Code and data should follow the same version schema, to clarify what code produced what data. |
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#### Build a user interface for research |
#### Build a user interface for research |
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The following outlines the to-do's of the project. |
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#### Enrich the data |
#### Enrich the data |
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- Analyze all sound clips and expose gained statistical values as search filters |
- Analyze all sound clips and expose gained statistical values as search filters |
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- Use the location description to get more preceise location coordinates |
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- Use the location description to get more precise location coordinates |
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