A Digital Library to Archive Research Material from Jane Goodall's Gombe

Chimpanzee Project

www.goodall.msi.umn.edu

PI : Prof. Anne Pusey (Dept. of Ecology)Co-PIs : Prof. Shashi Shekhar (Dept. of Computer Science)

Prof. Jaideep Srivastava (Dept. of Computer Science)RA : Mete Celik (Dept. of Computer Science)

Sponsor : Digital Technology Center

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Jane Goodall's Gombe chimpanzee project has been continuing in Gombe National Park, Tanzania since 1960. (www.janegoodall.org)

Jane Goodall Institute Center for Primate Studies at the University of Minnesota (www.discoverchimpanzees.org)

Jane Goodall's Gombe Chimpanzee Project

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Research Materials

Thousands of 35mm still chimpanzee photographs.

600 hours of chimpanzee video recorded at Gombe since 1993.

Annotation information (metadata) about visual materials.

Bill Wallauer

JGI videographer

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Bill Wallauer’s Video Database

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Research Materials

Field notes

Daily checklists

Maps

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Project Flow Chart

Digitization

Store in Video Server

Store in Database Server

Web Server

Make Video Clips

Video Photographs

Metadata

ResearchersPublic

Video

Photographs

Design Database

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ER Diagram of the Database

Video_Clip

Behavior Cornell_Ontology

Food

Chimp

Other_Subjects Behaves

Eats

Subject_Code

Name

Map_To

Record_Date

Index_In

Record_Time

Tape_No

Clip_Duration

Note

Location

Swahili_Name

Scientific_Name

English_Name

Food_Code

Behavior_Code

DescriptionOntology_Code Description

Quality

ISA Subject

Casting

Order

Focal

ClipRecorded_In

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ER Diagram of the Database

Behavior Cornell_ Ontology

Food

Chimp

Other_ Subjects Behaves

Eats

Subject_Code

Name

Map_To

Swahili_ Name

Scientific_ Name

English_ Name

Food_Code

Behavior_Code

DescriptionOntology_Code Description

ISA Subject

Casting

Order

Focal

Recorded_In

ISA

Material_No

Video_Clip

Still_Image

Visual_Material

Recording_Date

Location

Record_Time

Clip_Duration

Clip

QualityNoteIs ofMaterial _Type

DescType

Pgrapher

Is of

Category _Type

DescType

Index_In

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Search Screen for Public (Google-like)

Query: Show me video clips which have information about gremlin (chimp) and tool (behavior code)

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Search Results

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Search Results

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Detailed Search Screen

Query: Show me video clips whose target chimp is “gremlin” and contains information about chimp “gaia” and behavior “travel”

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Search Results