Rich,
The bird community is moving toward this end and the new Cornell database
tool in Excel will be of some interest. In Arizona we are beginning a
program for Coordinated Bird Monitoring between all the different programs=
that collect bird survey information. The tool you need may already be
available. I can look into this in the near future and let you know what I=
find out.
Greg Clark
At 01:24 PM 6/26/2006, you wrote:
>Running live links on my library is scary for me. I am really getting
>tired of my data becomming outdated every couple years.
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>The ABA keeps changing the species numbers and names on me. I use
>their species numbers on edited files for birds. And I still can not
>even find a species numbering system for all life forms to build a
>catalog around.
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>What I want is a program that will read the metadata and work with it
>toward a number of ends. For example, to read a species name and
>index/sort it to a uniform species numbering system for indexing and
>having link references that are sure to be dynamic. Then I want the
>GPS lat/lon read from the metadata and have that plot to a map link to
>plot the map where the recording was made. Date, time, place indexed
>to a historical wx site. etc. A conversion and edit program would be
>nice for changing "wave" to "broadcast waves" as well so that I can
>put jpg's embeded in the original unedited file as well.
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>Nature Recordists and photographers need a programmer to build us a
>set of basic programs that can work with wave meta data to help with
>this dynamic stuff.
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>As can be seen I am willing to bet that Broadcast Wave files will be
>able to be fully read for years to come. Maybe that too is a wish,
>but if we don't assume anything we don't ever move forward.
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>Rich
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>--- In "Greg Weddig" <>
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> > I have used Google Earth in the past but have found Google Maps useful
> > in my nature sound database. The GPS coordinates field is a live link
> > for each sound that takes me to a satellite image on Google maps when
> > clicked.
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> > --greg weddig
> > Baltimore, MD
> > http://www.ourmedia.org/user/627
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~gweddig
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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