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OCE Division Of Ocean Sciences |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | July 15, 2015 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | July 15, 2015 |
| Award Number: | 1549543 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Brian Midson
bmidson@nsf.gov (703)292-8145 OCE Division Of Ocean Sciences GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
| Start Date: | July 15, 2015 |
| End Date: | June 30, 2016 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $4,725.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $4,725.00 |
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75 LOWER COLLEGE RD RM 103 KINGSTON RI US 02881-1974 (401)874-2635 |
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215 South Ferry Road Narragansett RI US 02882-1197 |
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Marine Geology and Geophysics, BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, SUBMERSIBLE SUPPORT, OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.050 |
ABSTRACT
This award provides funds for a 2-day workshop to be held at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography in the Fall/Winter 2015-2016. This workshop will bring together science community stakeholders, video recording experts, and data managers and metadata specialists to develop consensus and best practices for video and complementary metadata to help move the community toward the common goal of broad public access to distributed video content for scientific research and public outreach.
Video imagery is an integral part of underwater operations conducted with ROVs, HOVs, and AUVs. These data are critical for sampling, exploration, and observation activities during seafloor operations and are key records for immediate post-dive and post-cruise research by the shipboard participants. Video archives have the potential to provide broad significant scientific benefits long after data acquisition and have tremendous potential for engaging the public in exciting ocean science research. To achieve this potential, significant challenges must be addressed that will allow video archives to become accessible and include sufficient metadata to allow users to access the content relevant to their needs.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
Disclaimer
This Project Outcomes Report for the General Public is displayed verbatim as submitted by the Principal Investigator (PI) for this award. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this Report are those of the PI and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation; NSF has not approved or endorsed its content.
This project focused on developing communty consensus and best practices for underwater video and complementary metadata with the goal of helping move the community toward broad public access to distributed video content for scientific research and public outreach. By gathering input from the community of stakeholders this project aspires to document current practices, develop consensus on best practices and promote the sharing of information and expertise. Recommendations for standards and best practices developed through this project will publicy available with the intent ofproviding guidance to other organizations and individuals developing and/or operating underwater imaging platforms.
A workshop was held in June 2016, focused on bringing together science community stakeholders, video recording experts, and data managers and metadata specialists to develop consensus and best practices for video and complementary metadata.Workshop participants included 46 inperson participants and 26 remote participants from more than 30 organizations inluding television and film professionals. Prior to theworkshop, a survey was conducted to gather input on current practices and perceived needs and challenges from the broad community of stakeholders.
Specific objectives were to gather information on the current practices for acquisition, management and access ofvideo content used across the oceanographic community and develop consensus onbest practices on acquisition, formats, codecs, metadata, etc.
One significant result was a survey that includes input from 133 members of the community and captures information about current practices and perceived needs. During the workshop, community consensus was developed on several aspects of underwater video acquistion, management and access. Presentations and breakout group notes are available through the workshop collaborative space on GitHub and is currently beingsythesized into a final report.
The outcomes and recommendations of the workshop will help to promote consistent practices across the community. Inaddition, a virtual group and collaborative space developed in GitHub during the workshop will provide a forum for ongoing discussions, traning and sharing of information and code.
Preliminary survey results are available at: http://www.marinegeo.org/community/video/PrelimSurveyResults.html. Workshop presentations and notes are available through: https://github.com/underwatervideo/UnderwaterVideoWorkingGroup
The final workshop report is still being developed but will be publicly available through the GitHub group page as well asthrough UNOLS.
The results of this project will help inform best practices with respect to the full data lifecycle of underwater video including acquisition, analysis, preservation and access. Underwater video is a content type that has multidisciplinary applications across the ocean sciences. The recommendations from this community workshop can also inform best practices for other video content acquired for earth and ocean science research (e.g. ships, drones etc).
Last Modified: 09/27/2016
Modified by: Dwight F Coleman
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