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Projects 

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 workspace in Wildlife Insights is where you can manage, edit and review metadata related to locations, deployments and data sharing.

Navigating the project workspace is similar to navigating the organization workspace:

Summary tab: Displays a map of all camera deployments and an overview of data within that project. Summary statistics are typically updated every 24 hours.

Details tab: Set and edit project details, including the project name, objectives, data licenses, embargo time, sensor layout, and options to delete human images. You can also add and edit Subprojects (optional), Camera Deployments (required) and Locations (required).

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

Catalogued tab: View images that have been reviewed and verified by a user.

Uploads tab: View all of your uploads and review the status of your image uploads.

Download button: Easily download all the data from the entire project by clicking this button and selecting Request data. To download data from the whole 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

  1. Fill out the form, making sure to fill out all required fields. 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.