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Macaulay Library Audio and Video Collection

Specimen Records: 220,272
Media Records: 220,286
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2016-03-25

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.

Contacts

Name Edwin Scholes III, Ph.D.
RoleCurator of Video
Emailedwin.scholes@cornell.edu
Name Edwin Scholes III, Ph.D.
RoleCurator of Video
Emailedwin.scholes@cornell.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Brian Maltzan
RoleLead Software Engineer
Emailbrian.maltzan@gmail.com
Name Mike Webster, Ph.D.
RoleDirector and Robert G. Engel Associate Professor of Ornithology
Emailmsw244@cornell.edu
Name Greg Budney
RoleCurator of Audio
Emailgfb3@cornell.edu
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i211531
96.032
dwc_datasetid_added  i205990
93.516
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i205990
93.516
dwc_taxonid_added  i205990
93.516
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i205990
93.516
gbif_canonicalname_added  i205990
93.516
gbif_genericname_added  i205990
93.516
gbif_taxon_corrected  i205990
93.516
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i202621
91.987
gbif_vernacularname_added  i199801
90.706
gbif_reference_added  i199022
90.353
dwc_multimedia_added  i173748
78.879
geopoint_datum_error  i141501
64.239
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i80318
36.463
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i70450
31.983
geopoint_low_precision  i44952
20.407
dwc_family_replaced  i14655
6.653
taxon_match_failed  i13624
6.185
rev_geocode_eez  i11432
5.19
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i9189
4.172
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i7620
3.459
dwc_genus_replaced  i7295
3.312
dwc_continent_replaced  i6260
2.842
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2033
0.923
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1180
0.536
dwc_order_replaced  i984
0.447
dwc_country_replaced  i803
0.365
dwc_phylum_replaced  i409
0.186
dwc_class_replaced  i406
0.184
dwc_continent_added  i375
0.17
rev_geocode_corrected  i340
0.154
geopoint_0_coord  i288
0.131
dwc_genus_added  i243
0.11
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i223
0.101
rev_geocode_failure  i220
0.1
dwc_specificepithet_added  i173
0.079
dwc_family_added  i152
0.069
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i123
0.056
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i107
0.049
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i107
0.049
geopoint_similar_coord  i89
0.04
datecollected_bounds  i64
0.029
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i61
0.028
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i27
0.012
rev_geocode_both_sign  i10
0.005
dwc_order_added  i1
0
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