Dear colleagues,
we have developed a web based, interactive database to make audiogram data more accessible to the public, but especially to serve as a tool and data repository for further research.
Currently audiogram data and relevant background information are reported in heterogeneous formats and are only embedded in individual scientific publications. This makes it hard to access, compare and integrate audiograms into other research, impact assessments
and decision making processes.
Based on a systematic survey of the scientific literature and manual data curation, the Animal Audiogram Database (https://animalaudiograms.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin)
assembles audiogram data, metadata about the corresponding experiments, and links to original publications in a consistent format established by community involvement. Focusing currently on vertebrates and underwater environments, the database is drafted as
a free resource whose structure and content can be extended collaboratively for audiogram data from any taxonomic group and habitat.
We are aiming at establishing this database also as a data repository to serve as a quality check and allow for easy access to this very necessary information. The database now
contains 269 underwater audiograms and 110 in-air audiograms from the published literature. It contains behavioral audiograms and auditory evoked potential research.
We hope you will like our idea! If you would like to support the project of developing the database further collaboratively with regard to both structure and content, based on community
input, let us know your comments and suggestions. We would also greatly appreciate being notified of publications and audiogram data which haven’t yet been included in the audiogram database. There is also the need for a quality check of our work from independent
researchers to ensure that this effort serves as a useful scientific tool.
We are inviting experts and potential users to a half-day virtual workshop on 25 Jan 2021, 1 – 4:30 PM (Central European Standard Time), in which we will introduce and develop the audiogram
database by means of a joint discussion and an online survey, which can be carried out in advance. The workshop will also be an opportunity for us to gather a first feedback from you on the audiogram database.
Please contact us at
and let us know until 20 Jan 2021 whether you would be interested in attending the workshop. You will then receive a zoom link to attend and a survey link. If you are interested and if, due to
short announcement schedule cannot make it, please also indicate that. We will then give considerations to a repetition of the workshop.
Best regards,
Michael Dähne,
on behalf of the project „Hearing in Penguins” and the especially the audiogram
database developers at the
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Denise Jäckel,
Alvaro Ortiz Troncoso and
Christian Bölling
The Animal Audiogram Database was developed as part of the project "Hearing in Penguins" funded by the
German Environment Agency (UBA) with means of the
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU, FKZ3777182440).
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Dr. Michael Dähne
Kurator für Meeressäugetiere / Curator of Marine Mammals
Deutsches Meeresmuseum
Museum für Meereskunde und Fischerei ∙ Aquarium
Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts
Tel.: +49 (0) 3831 2650-310
Fax: + 49 (0) 3831 2650-309
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