Tracking analysis of recordings about vesper

[HaroldMills]

I use a spreadsheet, usually one for each migration season. There's a row for each night of the season, and columns mostly for counts of various types of detection and call counts. I include a comments column for more free-form data.

The MPG Ranch folks used spreadsheets to keep track of the analysis of their recordings. Their workflow included various tasks to be performed for each recording, and whenever somebody performed a task for a particular recording they would check it off in the spreadsheet.

Issue #76 relates to this. It dates from early in the Vesper project, and not much has happened with it since spreadsheets have provided a reasonable if not ideal solution.

That said, one of my main motivations for writing Vesper was to create a system that could keep track of connections between recordings and the metadata (clips, annotations, etc.) created from them, so that less of that burden would fall on users. Along those lines, I am considering supporting annotations and tags for recordings and perhaps other objects instead of just for clips. I also would like to support comment threads for clips and recordings and perhaps other objects. I think that those features, perhaps combined with a customizable tabular metadata display (but then you're getting into spreadsheet territory, and I don't want to go very far into that) could go a long way towards allowing people to track their analysis more fully within Vesper.

[RichardLitt]

Spreadsheets make sense to me, too. This seems like one of those "it's good enough" problems.

Thanks. Closing this as unactionable for now.