Presentation of "Socio-Technical Perspectives on Digital Photography: Scientific Digital Photography Use by Marine Mammal Researchers" at the 2008 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio (October 27). This presentation was of work that was awarded the ASIS&T ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation of the Year.

1. Socio-Technical Perspectives on Digital Photography Scientific Digital Photography Use by Marine Mammal Researchers Eric T. Meyer, PhD Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford United Kingdom [email_address] http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/meyer ASIS&T presentation for the ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation of the Year Award Columbus, Ohio, USA, October 27, 2008 Source: Image from NOAA, Image ID: sanc0602, NOAA's Sanctuaries Collection Dissertation completed in 2007 at: School of Library and Information Science Indiana University, Bloomington USA

3. Photography Domains Meyer, E.T. (2008). Digital Photography. In St. Amant, K. and Kelsey, S. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication . Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.

5. Marine Mammalogy Source: All images from NOAA, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration

10. Source: National Geographic January 2007: http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0701/feature2/index.html

12. Participants

13. Data in the field

14. Matching techniques on screen (manual and automated)

15. DARWIN

16. NOAA-Mizroch

17. DIGITS

18. Matching techniques on paper

19. Research Questions

20. Photo-ID process: film Field photos External lab film developing Time = relative size of arrow (thick=longer time) Printing or sleeving Labeling Organizing Identification Analysis LEGEND In field At lab External to project Shot logs

21. Photo-ID process: digital Field photos Download, backup, initial organizing Printing (in some cases) Labeling and organizing Data entry Identification Analysis Time = relative size of arrow (thick=longer time) LEGEND In field At lab Summary logs

24. Research Questions

26. Idiosyncratic systems

28. Organizing digital photos

29. Organizing digital photos

30. Field-based system? Grid Boat-based Automated matching Database Cameras GPS Periodic upload automatically Analysts from distributed organizations Combine with other data: Environment, ecology, oceanography, etc. Environmental Data Ruggedized tablets

31. Eric T. Meyer, PhD Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford [email_address] http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/meyer Presentation available at: http://www.slideshare.net/etmeyer Special thanks for support from: Howard Rosenbaum Noriko Hara Pnina Shachaf Barry Bull Rob Kling Michelle Osborne Source: Image from NOAA, Image ID: anim0840, NOAA's Ark - Animals Collection Oxford e-Social Science Project