| URL: | http://bio.acousti.ca |
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| Description: | BioAcoustica is a free and open repository and analysis platform for bioacoustics. It includes bioacoustic recordings made by the staff of the Natural History Museum (London) as well as recordings contributed by other scientists. These recordings are linked to scientific papers and specimens, several recordings are of type specimens. The database is particularly strong in Orthoptera and Cicadidae. The recordings consist of calls of individuals that can be annotated and analysed, as well as of soundscapes. |
| Year founded: | 2015 |
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| Country/Region: | United Kingdom |
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| University/Institution: | Natural History Museum |
| Address: | Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK |
| City: | London |
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| Country/Region: | United Kingdom |
| Contact name (PI/Team): | Edward Baker |
| Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): | edward.baker@nhm.ac.uk |
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BioAcoustica: a free and open repository and analysis platform for bioacoustics. [PMID: 26055102]
We describe an online open repository and analysis platform, BioAcoustica (http://bio.acousti.ca), for recordings of wildlife sounds. Recordings can be annotated using a crowdsourced approach, allowing voice introductions and sections with extraneous noise to be removed from analyses. This system is based on the Scratchpads virtual research environment, the BioVeL portal and the Taverna workflow management tool, which allows for analysis of recordings using a grid computing service. At present the analyses include spectrograms, oscillograms and dominant frequency analysis. Further analyses can be integrated to meet the needs of specific researchers or projects. Researchers can upload and annotate their recordings to supplement traditional publication. © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. |