Digibird Kickoff5 February 2016 @Sound & Vision

14:00-14:25 Partners and datasets

14:25-14:45 Digibird project

14:45-15:15 Breakout session

15:15-15:30 Practicalities

15:30-16:00 Drinks

Todays program

Digibird people

Chris Dijkshoorn

Post-PhD-Contract

VU University Amsterdam

Cristina Bucur

Student Assistant

VU University Amsterdam

Bird species & soundsNaturalis and Xeno-canto

as partners in DigiBird

Sander Pieterse@zzherc

Naturalis Biodiversity CenterXeno-canto Foundation for Nature Sounds

• DigiBird kick-off meeting / Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum / February 5, 2016

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Naturalis Biodiversity Center

“To describe, understand and explain biodiversity,

for the wellbeing of mankind and the sustainability

of earth’s nature.”

(using 37 million dead things in glass jars)

Birds in Dutch Species Catalog

National thesaurus of multicellular species observed in The Netherlands since 1758

www.nederlandsesoorten.nl

Xeno-canto Foundation for Nature Sounds

•Popularising bird sounds & sound recordingworldwide

• Improving access to bird sounds

• Increasing the knowledge of bird sounds

•Opening up the recordings for enjoyment, education, conservation and science

Our medium: a crowd-sourced web database

www.xeno-canto.org

Global community platform for sharing and studying bird sounds

Shared goal: building the complete sound guide

Sound and Vision,

Nature & crowdsMaarten Brinkerink (R&D) & Saskia Arentsen (Access)

DATASET• National collection of (raw)

nature footage

• Wide range of Dutch landscapes, plants and animals

• Includes over 1,300 clips where© is held by NISV (140 birdclips)

MORE DATA•Some of the nature footage creators released their material as open content

•Over 500 clips available throughOpen Images/WikimediaCommons

CHANNELS

VIDEO LABELLING GAME

• Allows internet users to annotate audiovisual archive material in the form of a (serious) game

• The goal of the game is consensus between players

• Fun and competition as motivation

SPOTVOGEL

• Based on the Vroege Vogels (‘Early Birds’) nature series by NL public broadcaster VARA (also a partner in the project)

• Collaboration with Naturalis, utilizing their Dutch Species Catalogue for matching the social tags to an authoritative taxonomy

• Targeted the online community of interest associated with the series (thousands of activeonline forum contributors, on the programme website)

GAME MECHANICS

GAME MECHANICS

GAME MECHANICS

match with player

GAME MECHANICS

match with player

vocabulary match

GAME MECHANICS

match with player

vocabulary match

potential match

GAME MECHANICS

GAME MECHANICS

GAME MECHANICS

Digibird origin

Multimodal datasets

Point of integration

Digibird proposal

• COMMIT/ valorisation project

• Started writing December 2014

• Continuation of SEALINCMedia project

• € 27,500,- in-kind € 22,500,- matched by COMMIT/

• New partner:

Main deliverables

• Collection integration

• API - Embed your birds on partner sites

• Demonstrator

• Lure birdwatchers to crowdsourcing initiatives

Timeline

Jun-16 Jul-16 Aug-16 Sep-16 Oct-16

Set up Waisda?

Start tracking

Extend website

Jun-16 - Jul-16

Datamodels

System architecture

Decide birdlist

Jul-16 - Aug-16

Conversion

Infrastructure

Aug-16 - Sep-16

APIs

Embed content on sites

Sep-16 - Oct-16

Mockups prototype

Oct-16 - Nov-16

Prototype

1 May 2016

31 October 2016

Website

• Content

• Project outline

• Blogroll from SEALINCMedia Wordpress

• API documentation

• Demonstrator

• Statistics crowdsourcing

• digibird.io requested

Logo

Result of the project

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Break-out session

• Mock-up interfaces in

groups of two

• Brainstorming session

• Describe your ideas

Rules of the game

Ingredients

• Mock-up interfaces in

groups of two

• Brainstorming session

• Describe your ideas

Rules of the game

Practicalities

• Schedule follow-up meetings

• Register for SEALINCMedia blog

• Workshop

• Presence

• Dutch bird fair

• Landelijke Sovondag

• Dutch Birding day