Description
The Macaulay Library is the world's largest and oldest scientific archive of biodiversity audio and video recordings. Our mission is to collect and preserve recordings of each species' behavior and natural history, to facilitate the ability of others to collect and preserve such recordings, and to actively promote the use of these recordings for diverse purposes spanning scientific research, education, conservation, and the arts.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 220,286 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Cite the source of recordings as Macaulay Library (ML).<br><br> When possible, include the following data in your citation:<br><br> ML Media-collection Catalog-number<br> Common Name - Scientific name<br> Recordist<br> Location<br> Date<br> Macaulay Library/Cornell<br><br> For example:<br><br> ML Audio 2081<br> Green Heron - Butorides virescens<br> Sutherland, Charles A<br> United States, New York, Tompkins, 3 km NE of Ithaca, Sapsucker Woods Pond<br> 29 July 1962<br> Macaulay Library, www.macaulaylibrary.org<br> Cornell Lab of Ornithology<br><br> To cite an online recording, use the URL from the specimen record page. This URL is a stable globally unique identifier, or GUID, and also approximates the format for a life science identifier(LSID): <br><br> institution_collection_catalog# <br> (e.g. macaulaylibrary.org/video/12345).<br><br> The long url form should not be used. <br> (e.g. macaulaylibrary.org/video/12345/cardinal-new-york-2011).<br><br> For more information: http://macaulaylibrary.org/cite-recordings
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Cornell Lab of Ornithology. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 and http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7f6dd0f7-9ed4-49c0-bb71-b2a9c7fed9f1. Cornell Lab of Ornithology publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Observation; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator
- Point Of Contact
- Programmer
- Principal Investigator
Geographic Coverage
The Macaulay Library regularly undertakes recording expeditions to increase the breadth and depth of vocalizations and behaviors in the archive. In recent years we have targeted regions with a high diversity of species that are not yet well covered. See our Big Year Expeditions website (http://www.birds.cornell.edu/bigyear) detailing our efforts in 2007 to record North American birds in Alaska, Florida, Nova Scotia, and Texas. Between 2008-2010, expeditions visited the Canadian Arctic, Guatemala, South Carolina, Texas, western Mexico, the Great Basin and the Louisiana Gulf coast.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The archive includes more than 175,000 audio recordings covering 75 percent of the world's bird species, with an ever increasing numbers of insect, fish, frog, and mammal recordings as well. The more recently established video archive includes over 50,000 clips, representing over 3,500 species.
| Kingdom | Animalia (Animals) |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 7f6dd0f7-9ed4-49c0-bb71-b2a9c7fed9f1 |
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