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ONLINE RESOURCES
Online Resources
MGDS Media Bank: http://media.marine-geo.org/
Vicki Ferrini 1
Media Bank is an online repository of high-quality
images, videos, illustrations and animations
suitable for use within the scientific community
and for education and public outreach (EPO), that
is hosted by the Marine Geoscience Data System
(MGDS). The initial focus of Media Bank was to
serve USA Ridge 2000 research and EPO efforts,
but it was constructed as a flexible system that
could accommodate media from other multidisciplinary
marine geoscience research initiatives.
Images and videos in the gallery can be browsed
as thumbnails or as preview images (Fig. 1). A full
suite of metadata is provided for each image, enabling
links to relevant cruises and database entries
(Fig. 2). Images are tagged with metadata to
provide keyword search functionality and are sorted
into categories (e.g., Geology, Biology). Keywords
can also be included in the URL to enable
direct links to images. For example, http://media.
marine-geo.org/search/node/EPR will assemble all
images from the East Pacific Rise.
We encourage the contribution of high-quality
media for inclusion in the Media Bank, and we
can accommodate restricted downloads of fullresolution
images. For more information on
how to submit media, please see http://media.
marine-geo.org/contribute or contact Vicki Ferrini
(ferrini@ldeo.columbia.edu).
Figure 1: (upper) Screen grab of Media Bank interface,
highlighting images from USA Ridge 2000 Program.
Figure 2: (lower) Screen grab of an individual image
and metadata from the Media Bank.
1 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA, Email: ferrini@ldeo.columbia.edu
InterRidge News 54 Vol. 17, 2008