Hi Rick,
I guess when I said 'noting down' I meant verbally noting down by
speaking the information at the end of the recording. That way the
information is never lost, no matter what sort of recorder you are
using. Some folk prefer making written notes, but they can get lost
or separated from the recording. And even though flash card
recorders preserve the time and date automatically, I also like to
add this information verbally from time to time, while I am recording
- 'just in case' :-)
I am still very much behind when it comes to using metadata, and I
continue to use a manual database which I simply type into a
spreadsheet, then sort in taxonomic order (for birds anyway), and
print as a hard copy. It takes a while to do it but finding
recordings is then very easy.
cheers,
Vicki
On 05/11/2010, at 10:26 PM, Rick Munday wrote:
>>
>> For anyone just starting out with recording and cataloging, it might
>> be useful to note down all the things that you need to document, no
>> matter what method of documenting you use:
>>
>> e.g. for birds:
>> place, date, time, weather
>> name of species if known
>> whether male or female
>> behaviour e.g. perched, in flight, courting, in a flock
>> whether call or song
>>
>> Many people tend to neglect noting down their observations of
>> behaviour and if male or female, and these observations can be most
>> useful for future researchers.
>>
>
> Thanks Vicki
>
> I added a reporters pad to my bag to write notes. It was easy with
> the iPod
> Touch and Mikey since FiRe allows you to name the tracks which
> helped recall
> greatly. No such option on the LS-10.
>
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