Annotations

Data standards

• TDDWG Audiovisal Core Regions of Interest Vocabulary

• TDWG Audiovisual Core Regions of Interest Recipes

• Bioacoustic and Ecoacoustic Data in Audiovisual Core Talk at SPNHC-TDWG 2024 Conference (Okinawa, Japan)

Tools for handling annotations in R

These functions define a new object class Annotations and associated functions that can be used to store, manipulate, edit and save annotations.

• Annotation class in sonicscrewdriver Defines the Annotation class.

• merge_annotations() in sonicscrewdriver Used to merge overlapping or adjacent Annotation objects.

• sort_annotations() in sonicscrewdriver Used to sort a list of Annotation objects.

Sources of annotations

• birdNetAnalyse() in sonicscrewdriver Can optionally output identifications as Annotation objects.

• flytunes_annotations() in NHMDE Outputs Annotation objects from Zooniverse exports of the FlyTunes project.

Saving annotations

• writeAudacityLabels in sonicscrewdriver Writes a list of Annotation objects as a label file for the audio editor Audacity.