Credits

The development of this web application was an initiative of the Queensland University of Technology’s Ecoacoustics Research Group. This website makes use of a range of other technologies and libraries.

More information can be found on the QutEcoacoustics Github project page.

Programs and libraries

• Ruby on Rails (with a number of additional gems)
• Resque
• Redis
• Command line audio tools:
• ffmpeg (for audio conversion and gathering audio file information)
• SoX (to create spectrograms and resample audio)
• WavPack (to expand compressed .wv files)
• mp3split (for quickly segmenting large .mp3 files)
• AngularJS
• D3.js

Platforms and services

• Github
• QRISCloud
• nectar

Infrastructure

• NeCTAR for academic cloud infrastructure
• QRISCloud for providing our queensland based compute, storage, and support service
• Research Data Services for storage (managed by QCIF)
• QUT HPC for alternate offsite storage