News: Contribute Organism Sounds to EOL via SoundCloud
We are very happy today to announce the availability of an EOL group on SoundCloud you can use to share your recordings of organism sounds with the world through the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Alexander Ljung, founder and CEO of SoundCloud, had this to say about this new collaboration:
Sound plays a huge role in our understanding, identifying and differentiating of animals. It’s inspiring to see a platform like EOL maximizing SoundCloud to provide a free and centralised source for information on all species that anyone can submit to.
To contribute a sound to EOL through SoundCloud, sign up for a free SoundCloud account, upload your sound(s) to SoundCloud, and then share to the EOL group.
The sounds shared with the EOL group on SoundCloud will be “harvested” by EOL on a regular basis, and if they meet the requirements described below, EOL will associate the recording with the taxon page of each organism featured in the recordings. Note that this is very similar to how EOL interacts with the (very popular) EOL group on Flickr.
Requirements:
A. Sounds should be tagged with the scientific names of all organisms identified in the recording. Species and subspecies identifications are ideal, but if you only know the genus or family, then add these tags instead.
Specific instructions on the different tagging options can be found on the EOL group on SoundCloud.
B. Sounds contributed to EOL must be licensed under one of the following licenses:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC-BY-NC)
- Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA)
- Public Domain
(Sounds marked with any of the Creative Commons No Derivatives licenses or an All Rights Reserved license will not be imported. This does not mean *all* of your sounds on SoundCloud must be licensed like this - just the ones you choose to share with EOL. Thanks for your support on this.)
Adding tags and setting the CC license is relatively simple. It looks a bit like this.
C. If it is possible for you to identify the places in your sound where certain species can be heard, please do! Here are instructions for how to do this.
If you have questions, let us know by leaving a comment here. And thank you in advance for your contributions to EOL.
PS - Congratulations to Soundcloud on reaching the impressive 10 million user mark!
