This codebook.txt file was generated on 20180518 by Somayeh Dodge (sdodge@umn.edu)


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GENERAL INFORMATION
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1. Title of Tool: DYNAMOVis - Dynamic Visualization of Animal Movement Data


2. Author Information


  Principal Investigator Contact Information
        Name: Somayeh Dodge
           Institution: University of Minnesota
	   Department: Geography, Environment, and Society
           Address: 414 Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455
           Email: sdodge@umn.edu

  Associate Contact Information
        Name: Glenn Xavier
           Institution: University of Colorado Colorado Springs
           Email: glenn.f.xavier@gmail.com
  

Associate Contact Information
        Name: Wing Yi (Pinki) Wong
           Institution: University of Minnesota
           Email: wongx596@umn.edu 

3. Date of build: 20141126


4. Information about funding sources that supported the development of the tool:
This project was supported by the University of Minnesota's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, and the University of Colorado, 2014 LAS Student-Faculty Research award for "Visual Analytics to Study Animal Movement in a Geographic Context"





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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data:
Only for educational and research use. ©2018 Regents of the University of Minnesota. Released under the GNU General Public License. 

2. Recommended citation for the tool:
Somayeh Dodge, Glenn Xavier, Wing Yi Wong. (2018). DynamoVis - Dynamic Visualization of Animal Movement Data. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/197620.

3. Publication related to the tool:
Xavier, G. and Dodge, S., (2014). An Exploratory Visualization Tool for Mapping the Relationships between Animal Movement and the Environment. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Interacting with Maps. pp. 36–42, doi:10.1145/2677068.2677071

Link to publication: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2677071

4. Demonstration of the tool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA0rlP1jGT4&feature=youtu.be


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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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1. File List
   A. DYNAMOVis.zip contains:

	Filename:  DYNAMO_0.4.0.1.jar      
      	Short description: Executable file. Execute this file to run the tool. 

	Folder: Config 
	Short description: Includes variables to set up the tool.

	Folder: Data 
	Short description: Includes an example data file to run the tool. The data is obtained from https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.331

	Filename: ReadMe_DYNAMOVis.txt
	Short description: Metadata related to the data/tool record 

	
2. Relationship between files:    

Folders Config and Data are required to open and run the tool.    

3. Are there multiple versions of the tool? no


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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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1. Programming tools used to develop the software:

This tool is developed using Java, Processing (www.processing.or), and Unfolding Maps (http://unfoldingmaps.org) library.

2. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data:
The software needs java.