How a camera trap data standard enabled an ecosystem of interoperable tools

Talk at BioMonWeek in Montpellier, France - May 5, 2026.

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1. Peter Desmet INBO, Belgium How a camera trap data standard enabled an ecosystem of interoperable tools Image by INBO
2. - Standard for FAIR exchange of camera trap data - Simple data model - Project metadata - Deployments - Media - Observations - Community-developed - Released in November 2023 Camera Trap Data Package camtrap-dp.tdwg.org
3. Camtrap DP Agouti GBIF IPT camtrap dp Best practice guide Frictionless Framework Biowatch Safe & Sound Wild Album
4. Agouti - Online application by WUR/INBO - Data management - Create projects - Add collaborators - Upload images - Classify species with AI - Export to Camtrap DP - Also TRAPPER, ARISE, Timelapse, Wildlife Insights, EuroMammals agouti.eu
5. frictionless validate datapackage.json ─────────────────── Dataset ──────────────────── dataset ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ name ┃ type ┃ path ┃ status ┃ ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━┩ │ deployments │ table │ deployment… │ VALID │ │ media │ table │ media.csv │ VALID │ │ observations │ table │ observatio… │ INVALID │ └──────────────┴───────┴─────────────┴─────────┘ ──────────────────── Tables ──────────────────── observations ┏━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Row ┃ Field ┃ Type ┃ Message ┃ ┡━━━━━╇━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ │ 5 │ 6 │ type-error │ Type error in the │ │ │ │ │ cell "2021-04-15" │ │ │ │ │ in row "5" and │ │ │ │ │ field "eventEnd" │ │ │ │ │ at position "6": │ │ │ │ │ type is │ │ │ │ │ "datetime/%Y-%m-… │ └─────┴───────┴────────────┴───────────────────┘ - Command-line/Python tool by Open Knowledge Foundation - Data validation - Metadata - Required tables - Required fields - Data types - Vocabularies - Relationships Frictionless Framework framework.frictionlessdata.io
6. - R package by INBO - Data manipulation - Read/Write - Upgrade - Filter, merge, … - Transform to Darwin Core - Compatible with camtraptor, camtrapDensity, camtrapReport camtrapdp inbo.github.io/camtrapdp Camtrap DP files Camtrap DP files (older version) Camtrap DP Camtrap DP Camtrap DP Camtrap DP read upgrade merge filter Camtrap DP files Darwin Core Archive write transform analyse
7. Biowatch - Desktop application by EarthToolsMaker - Data exploration - Import different formats - Classify species with AI - Explore/visualize - Export to Camtrap DP earthtoolsmaker.org/tools/biowatch
8. GBIF IPT - Online application by GBIF - Data publication - Import Camtrap DP/CSV - Import or write metadata - Publish - Register with GBIF (transformed to Darwin Core) gbif.org/ipt
9. Wild Album - Website by WILDLABS/GBIF - Data discovery - Dataset search - Dataset metrics - Occurrence search - Summary metrics - Citation tracking album.wildlabs.net
10. - Guide by GBIF/INBO/translators - Community guidelines - How to manage data - How to publish data - Translated to Japanese/Spanish - Also Terayama et al. (2026) GBIF best practice guide docs.gbif.org/camera-trap-guide
11. - Project by bioacoustics community - Standard extension - How to extend Camtrap DP for passive acoustic monitoring - Review existing standards - Consult community - Suggest changes to Camtrap DP - Also InsectAI Safe & Sound hdl.handle.net/11250/5343743
12. Camtrap DP Agouti GBIF IPT camtrap dp Best practice guide Frictionless Framework Biowatch Safe & Sound Wild Album
13. Camtrap DP Agouti GBIF IPT camtrap dp Best practice guide Frictionless Framework Biowatch Safe & Sound Wild Album Trapper camtrap tor camtrap Report camtrap Density Time Lapse Terayama et al. Wildlife Insights Euro Mammals InsectAI ARISE
14. Camtrap DP version 2? Agouti GBIF IPT camtrap dp Best practice guide Frictionless Framework Biowatch Safe & Sound Wild Album Trapper camtrap tor camtrap Report camtrap Density Time Lapse Terayama et al. Wildlife Insights Euro Mammals InsectAI ARISE
15. - camtrap-dp.tdwg.org - This presentation: bit.ly/camtrap-dp-ecosystem - This work was funded through LifeWatch Belgium, B-Cubed & BIG_PICTURE Thank you! Photo by INBO