Metadata standards for Automated Insect Camera Traps

Tom August

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Computational ecologist with interests in computer vision, citizen science, open science, drones, acoustics, data viz, software engineering, public engagement

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Have others watched this webinar from GBIF introducing the data model for camera trap data. I wonder if this is something we can easily adopt/adapt for our sorts of camera traps?

Jamie Alison

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28 November 2022 4:37pm

I did attend the webinar and had a strong feeling that this standard will be well supported and taken up in the camera trapping community! I would also love to hear if someone has tried to use it.

Tom August

@tom_august | he/him

Computational ecologist with interests in computer vision, citizen science, open science, drones, acoustics, data viz, software engineering, public engagement

30 November 2022 11:11am

I've added this to the main camera trap thread as it would be good to get thoughts from those folk too.

Kent McFarland

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Conservation Biologist

2 December 2022 3:58pm

Yes. I think this is really the way to go!

Donald Hobern

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Amateur naturalist, grew up in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, now living in Canberra. Interests include Lepidoptera (especially Pterophoridae), Malaise and automated moth trapping, DNA barcoding, biodiversity informatics, global species lists.

6 July 2023 4:48am

Here is another metadata initiative to be aware of. OGC has been developing a standard for describing training datasets for AI/ML image recognition and labeling. The review phase is over and it will become a new standard in the next few weeks. We should consider its adoption when we develop our own training image collections.