Overview of the system

The Multimedia Server presents collections of biodiversity photographs, videos, sound files and literature.

The photos reside in albums which are published inside photo galleries or directly into folders.

In the literature main section in the left menu, literature can be uploaded as e.g. pdf-files.

Photos and other multimedia files and literature files can be uploaded online by anyone registered as a user.

You can change the content of your photo / sound / video album(s) online, and you can add any kind of information, e.g. species name (scientific and common), copyright information, georeference, locality name, description etc. You can show your photos/multimedia files in a visible folder and e.g. put copyright information on each photo, or you can hide your folder so that only you can see the photos.

The galleries, albums and photos are described by metadata entered by the content providers. Some metadata is acquired from the gallery to the album and further to the contained photos, in order to streamline the process of describing them. Photos can be added one by one or from a zip file, in which case common metadata can be filled in for the entire group of photos. This is particularly useful when you want to upload several images from a collection or from a trip to a biodiversity rich location. 

For more detailed information on how to use the Multimedia Server, please see Guidelines.

Examples
Photo album
Photo with copyright information and georeference on map
Photo of locality
We are currently developing a DeepZoom function for photos, se DZ-test.
Test audio file: frog voices
Test video file: OSIRIS-REx
Literature: Botanisk Tidsskrift (Danish Botany Journal)

All pictures and other multimedia files are submitted under Copyright Agreement!

Contact
Informatics Manager: Mihail Carausu
Web editor: Lotte Endsleff

Please contact us for further information, user registration and tutorial.

Standards
The Multimedia Server is built according to the GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) standards and software development rules and implements the Multimedia Resources Task Grup, MRTG (a joint TDWG (Biodiversity Information Standards) and GBIF task group) adopted schema (Audubon Core V1.0) for the biodiversity multimedia metadata.

The Audubon Core Multimedia Resources Metadata schema (AC schema) is a set of representation-neutral metadata vocabularies for describing biodiversity-related multimedia resources and collections. AC shares terminology and concerns with many well known and important standards for describing access to resources such as Dublin Core (DC) and Darwin Core (DwC). Read more.