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Worlds Largest Natural Sound Archive Now Online
The "largest and oldest" collection of natural sounds in the world is now digital and available online, Cornell University announced.
The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology houses a scientific archive of biodiversity audio and video recordings. Previously in analog format, the recordings -- which go back to 1929 -- are now completely digitized, and can be heard at MacaulayLibrary.org.
"In terms of speed and the breadth of material now accessible to anyone in the world, this is really revolutionary," Greg Budney, Macaulay's audio curator, said in a statement.
It took archivists 12 years to finish digitizing the collection, which has nearly 150,000 audio recordings…
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