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Project overview

Any time you upload data to Wildlife Insights, you’ll upload data to a project. A project is a group of (or a single) camera deployments with a defined objective and methods. The project space in Wildlife Insights is where you can manage, edit and review metadata related to locations, deployments and data sharing.

Navigating the Project workspace

Summary tab: The project summary tab displays a map of all locations, an overview of data within that project.

Details tab: This is where you can set and edit project details including the project name, objectives, data licenses, embargo time, sensor layout, and set options to delete human images. This is also where you can add and edit Deployment and Location information (required fields).

Identify tab: All data uploaded to Wildlife Insights through the web-based upload will show up in the Identify tab. These images have passed through the AI model and are ready for a user review. You’ll see all of the project’s unidentified images here and can filter by deployment, species and blanks.

Catalogued tab: All of the data that has been reviewed by a user will be stored in this section. Only data from the project you’re viewing will be shown here.

Download button: You can easily download all of the data from the entire project by clicking on this button and selecting “Request data”. To download data from the entire organization, go to the Organization page to request data.

User Permissions button: This button will open a screen where you can invite users to join your project.

Create and Edit a Project

To create a new project, you can:

1. Use the Projects List (see the image on the left for an example):

2. From the Manage page (see the image on the right for an example)

3. Fill out the form, making sure to fill out all required fields marked with an asterisk. You can return at any time to edit any of these fields described below:

 

Project Types

Data about the animals detected by the camera traps can be recorded in one of two ways: by image or by sequence. You can set how you’d like to record data when the project is created. Note that once a project type is selected, it cannot be changed.

Image project:

Sequence project:

Create a location or deployment

There are two ways you can create a location or deployment:

1. During the upload process you can either create a new location and deployment or select from a list of existing locations and deployments in your project. If you would like to create a new location and/or deployment:

2. You can create new locations and deployments at any time in the project details tab:

Embargo

Wildlife Insights encourages users to share their data publicly but also recognizes the need to publish data before sharing. Embargoes offer the opportunity to keep project data private for a period of time before it is made public.

Embargoed data will not be available to the public for the duration of the embargo, but project metadata (e.g., project name, objectives) may be shared with the public. The embargo begins on the date the first image is uploaded to a deployment and is measured separately for each deployment. Read more about embargoed data in our FAQs.

To set an embargo:

Creative Commons Licenses

For each project, you can select how you want to license your data under these Creative Commons licenses:

These licenses are described below:

Delete images of humans

Wildlife Insights provides the option to hide or delete images of humans for organizations with data privacy restrictions. If you’d like to delete images of humans from your private workspaces, select this option in the Project Details page. Images of humans will be deleted only after a user has verified the identification as a human (i.e., the image has moved to the Catalogued section). All other metadata (i.e., timestamp, identification) will still be available after the human image has been deleted.

If the option to delete images of humans is not selected, only Project Owners will be able to see images of humans after the ID has been verified. Images of humans will be hidden from all other users in the project (Project Editors, Collaborators, Taggers and Viewers).

Join an existing project

If you would like to join an existing project, you must be invited by a Project Owner or Editor.

 

 

Invite someone to join your Project

Once you’re viewing the project summary page, you can add users by selecting the green people icon button, located on the right side of the screen. This will open a “Users permissions” box where you can invite users by entering their email There are five roles that you can assign at the project level: Owner, Editor, Contributor, Tagger or Viewer. There is no limit on how many users you can add to your project. 

Read more about Project Roles and Permissions.

Remove a team member from a project

You can remove any user from a project and revoke their access to that entity by opening the User Permissions box and selecting “Revoke”.When someone is removed from a project, all of the data uploaded by that user will remain in the project.