<tt>I want to announce that "Fonoteca Zoologica," the Animal Sound
Library of the National Museum of Natural History of Madrid (Spain),
has now started its web page:</tt><br>
<br>
<pre style="margin: 0em;">www.fonozoo.com</pre><br>
<tt>In this web page you will be able to search taxonomically the two
databases on animal sounds we have: A collection of published
recordings where more than 17.000 tracks are listed (about 60% of the
commercial audio CDs, cassettes, and LPs included in the collection),
and our more modest collection of original recordings with about 3000
recordings deposited in our scientific collection (more than slightly
biased towards frog and toad calls, which is my own research
interest). Only the information about the recordings is included in
the database (sound files are not included).</tt><br>
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<tt>The edition of analog recordings, and the taxonomic indexing has been
the work of several cohorts of volunteers over the last three years,
and the task is still in progress as we have considerable material
awaiting for processing and for deposit in the collections.</tt><br>
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<tt>The primary purpose of this web-page is scientific: to make available
to the scientific community the information gathered by all the
nature recordists that have published or commercialized their
recordings, and to ensure that the recorded material is preserved in
the best possible manner. No commercial purpose is contemplated: no
sounds are sold or purchased, only information is provided, and
published sounds are only released with the permission of the authors
of the recordings.</tt><br>
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<tt>If you have time to have a look at it and send any comments about the
page, the collection manager and myself will be happy to consider any
suggestions for improvement or to correct any mistakes you may want
to point out.</tt><br>
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<tt>If you have recordings that you may want to deposit, or you may want
to correct the contact information for the author of some of the
recordings please feel free to contact us too.</tt><br>
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<pre style="margin: 0em;">Warm regards from Madrid and thank you for having a
look at the page.</pre><br>
<pre style="margin: 0em;">--</pre><br>
<pre style="margin: 0em;">Dr. Rafael Marquez
Fonoteca Zoologica, Dept. de Biodiversidad y Biologia Evolutiva
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC)
Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2
28006 Madrid
Spain</pre><br>
<pre style="margin: 0em;">e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone +34 91 4111328 ext 1257
fax +34 91 5645078
www.fonozoo.com</pre><br>
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