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#Timetag on android software#
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To get more details about the discussion, I could send you the converted files that I generated from the xeno-canto HTML pages. And they didn't deal with the taxon id problem, as they just used the plain english names for identifying a taxon. For instance, BBC focuses on sharing their footage, but they don't have the need to geotag and timetag each recording as xeno-canto does. In general, there's not an universal solution, also because every publisher is focused on a slightly different purpose.

how we encode the information about the observation.

But I think that this is solvable in an acceptable way. many taxa from the Clements checklist that don't have a match. In this way, everybody can keep his taxonomy, but have data that can be easily crossed and exchanged with others.ĬatalogueOfLife seems the way to go (from what I understand it's supported by reputable scientific authorities), but the catalog seems not completed yet, as I see e.g. In short, they're just defining unique ids for each taxon, that are not related to a specific taxonony. I've seen that there is a proposed solution to that: This is a problem for matching the right resource with the required taxon. We know that there are multiple taxonomies around and from what I understand looking at the communities it's unlikely to have an universal one adopted. The problem of defining an XML (or such) format is composed of at least two points: The problem is that analyzing a whole HTML page is somewhat slow on a mobile phone, and would introduce a somewhat long pause when the user select the fact sheet option.

#Timetag on android Offline#

At the moment I have written an offline application that reads the xeno-canto pages, extract the relevant information and converts to a lighter format that it's used by blueBill. I'd be extremely happy to have an XML interface to xeno-canto, as I'd have to work less. Ok, so for the sound recognition I'll wait for news here.įor the XML format, keeping it short. Oh, aa an aside one user of your blueBill app remarked that he would prefer streaming sound to downloads. This would have to be a combination of taxonomic information and technical information. We have been thinking about defining an xml format for sharing information about bird sounds for a while now. On another note: I found a blog where you show xml used by the BBC to share information between websites, apps etc. Check out the features for his findings so far.īoth of these things are probably long term targets. It's called Pai-Luiz, and at some point it will be an integral part of xeno-canto. Hermann Redies has been working very hard on the web implementation of a recognition algorithm. Sound recognition: this was one of the reasons to start xeno-canto in the first place. There are plenty of sites where similar things are running I think. On the first one, I bet it is possible to organise things in such a way that uploads from mobiles are possible. BTW, I'm not expert at all in sound analysis and recognition, but I could implement algorithms suggested by an expert (or maybe integrating existing open source software). I'd also bet that some weeks ago I found some web pages about this topic by a xeno-canto member, but I can't find them. I've googled around and find a few discussion (including one at xeno-canto) but with no conclusions. uploading the files to xeno-canto without passing through a computer, but I don't know whether people first postprocess it on a computer (I suppose they do).Īutomatic bird song recognition. I'm curious whether there could be some specific feature for birders that can be implemented in the phone.

#Timetag on android software#

It is relatively easy to add support for recording from the phone (indeed there is already a number of software for recording sounds). I have two specific points about xeno-canto, and I'd like to have feedback before starting working on it (because they could be unfeasible and/or useless): Thanks :-) Any kind of help is appreciated, including localization.