Running live links on my library is scary for me. I am really getting
tired of my data becomming outdated every couple years.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rich
--- In "Greg Weddig" <>
wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --greg weddig
> Baltimore, MD
> http://www.ourmedia.org/user/627
> http://home.earthlink.net/~gweddig
>
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