The Acoustic Workbench is an open source Ecoacoustics data management platform.
The workbench is a white label appliance: multiple instance of the workbench can be run independently, each with their own branding and data.
This repository is a meta repository that contains:
- links to the various components of the Acoustic Workbench
- user documentation
- developer documentation
- and various other resources
THIS REPO IS A WORK IN PROGRESS
There are currently two known instances of the Acoustic Workbench:
- Ecosounds is a public instance of the workbench that is run by the QUT Ecoacoustics Research Group
- Private and public data hosted for any user.
- No fixed experimental design or data collection strategy.
- The Australian Acoustic Observatory (the A2O) is run by the QUT Ecoacoustics Research Group
- The A2O is a large scale experiment with a fixed experimental design. Read more here.
- All data is licensed under the Creative Commons License
- No public contributions of audio are accepted
Are you running an instance? Edit this file and add your instance here.
All instances run the exact same workbench software. The only difference is the purpose, data, and branding.
There are two main components of the Acoustic Workbench:
https://github.com/QutEcoacoustics/baw-server
A Ruby on Rails application that provides a RESTful API for managing Ecoacoustics data and metadata.
https://github.com/QutEcoacoustics/workbench-client
An Angular application that provides a web interface for managing Ecoacoustics data and metadata.
There are several other components that are important:
- EMU is a collection of tools for extracting metadata and repairing faulty audio files
- CRANE is a container that collects all analyses we use on the workbench
This repository contains documentation for the Acoustic Workbench. See the
This work has been supported through several grants.
The most recent of which is the ARDC Platforms project. Open Ecoacoustics currently sponsors development of the workbench thanks to the ARDC Platforms project. See https://doi.org/10.47486/PL050 for more details.
(TODO: add historical grants)