Wildbook

Wildbook® is an open source software framework to support mark-recapture, molecular ecology, and social ecology studies. The biological and statistical communities already support a number of excellent tools, such as Program MARK,GenAlEx, and SOCPROG for use in analyzing wildlife data. Wildbook is a complementary software application that:

-provides a scalable and collaborative platform for intelligent wildlife data storage and management, including advanced, consolidated searching

-provides an easy-to-use software suite of functionality that can be extended to meet the needs of wildlife projects, especially where individual identification is used

-provides an API to support the easy export of data to cross-disciplinary analysis applications (e.g., GenePop ) and other software (e.g., Google Earth)

-provides a platform that supports the exposure of data in biodiversity databases (e.g., GBIF and OBIS)

-provides a platform for animal biometrics that supports easy data access and facilitates matching application deployment for multiple species

Wildbook IA - Formerly IBEIS

Wildbook is the data management layer for the Wildbook IA (WBIA). The WBIA project is the successor to the Image-Based Ecological Information System (IBEIS) computer vision research platform, which pulls data from Wildbook servers to detect features in images and identify individual animals. WBIA brings massive-scale computer vision to wildlife research for the first time.

Support

Please see Wildbook.org for documentation.

Need direct help?

Wild Me (wildme.org) engineering staff provide support for Wildbook. You can contact us at: support@wildme.org

We provide support during regular office hours on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Support resources include:

• Wildbook Wiki - User Manual, Field Guide, & Documentation
• Community & Developer Support
• Wild Me Professional Services

History

Wildbook started as a collaborative software platform for globally-coordinated whale shark (Rhincodon typus ) research as deployed in the Wildbook for Whale Sharks (http://www.whaleshark.org). After many requests to use our software outside of whale shark research, it is now an open source, community-maintained standard for mark-recapture studies.

Wildbook is a registered trademark of Wild Me, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

https://www.wildme.org