Introducing Wild Moves and Wild Album

Talk at the WILDLABS Variety Hour - March 25, 2026.

1. Peter Desmet, Talia Speaker, Francesca Cagnacci Introducing Wild Moves and Wild Album Discover GBIF-mediated animal tracking and camera trapping data Image by INBO WILDLABS Variety Hour
2. - Expensive/disruptive to collect - Seldom used beyond their project scope - Useful for policy (e.g. Move BON) - Hard to find Animal tracking & camera trapping data Photo by INBO
3. - Encourage people to publish their data - Increase discoverability - Develop tools and standards to facilitate this We want to library(movepub) (dataset <- read_package("https://zenodo.org/records/10053903/fi les/datapackage.json")) #> A Data Package with 3 resources: #> • reference-data #> • gps #> • acceleration #> For more information, see <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10053903>. write_dwc(dataset, ".") #> ── Reading data ── #> #> ℹ Taxa found in reference data and their WoRMS AphiaID: #> Haematopus ostralegus: 147436 #> #> ── Transforming data to Darwin Core ── #> #> ── Writing files ── #> #> • ./occurrence.csv #> • ./meta.xml #> • ./emof.csv
4. - Data management platforms - Movebank - Ocean Tracking Network - European Tracking Network - EuroMammals - Data standards - Data Standardisation Working Group - Data publishing tools - Movepub R package - GBIF IPT For animal tracking
5. - Data management platforms - Agouti - Trapper - Wildlife Insights - EuroMammals - Data standards - Camtrap DP - Data publishing tools - GBIF IPT For camera trapping
6. - Wild Moves - Animal tracking data portal - moves.wildlabs.net - Wild Album - Camera trap data portal - album.wildlabs.net And now …
7. - Full text search - Filters for country, publisher, project ID, etc. Feature: dataset search moves.wildlabs.net/dataset/search?publishi ngOrg=1cd669d0-80ea-11de-a9d0-f1765f95f 18b
8. - Metadata - Metrics - Citations (!) - Link to source data - Download data Feature: dataset pages moves.wildlabs.net/dataset/355b8ff9-7bd9- 49c3-92af-f6741b8bd0cb/metrics?group=te mporal
9. - Search across datasets - Filters for scientific name, country, date, publisher, etc. - Show as table, gallery of media, map, metrics - Download data Feature: occurrence search album.wildlabs.net/occurrence/search?view =gallery&taxonKey=9705453
10. - Available in Spanish - Maintained by WildLabs & volunteers - Powered by GBIF infrastructure Feature: maintenance album.wildlabs.net/es/about
11. - Global Biodiversity Information Facility - Intergovernmental initiative supported by participating countries (and organizations) - Free and open access to biodiversity data - Open source infrastructure - National help desks What is GBIF? gbif.org
12. - Publish your dataset to GBIF - Animal tracking - Transform data to Darwin Core (with optional downsampling) - Publish via GBIF IPT - Associate with “Wild Moves” network - Camera trapping - Transform data to Camtrap DP - Publish via GBIF IPT How can I include my data? Publish Tracking dataset e.g. in Movebank Camera trap dataset e.g. in Agouti IPT IPT Centralize Dataset API Dataset API Network filter Format filter Filter Wild Moves Wild Album Show
13. - Based on GBIF, Darwin Core and EML - No filter for sampling protocol - No filter for availability of source data - No visualization of tracks - … - Currently no capacity/funding to develop new features Current limitations Image by OpenStreetMap contr., OpenMapTiles, GBIF
14. - Spread the news - Publish your datasets! - Contribute to - Project proposals - Data standards - Best practice guides - Publication software - Text for the website - Translations - Get in touch! Get involved Photo by OTN
15. Thank you! Photo by INBO - Portals: moves.wildlabs.net album.wildlabs.net - This presentation: bit.ly/wild-moves-album - This work was funded by through DTO-BioFlow and BIG_PICTURE.