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Camtrap DP (development version)

Documentation
  • The website now has a Changelog section (inspired by NEWS.md in R packages), so developers have an overview of upcoming changes and previous releases (#410).

Camtrap DP 1.0.2

Release 1.0.2 - Release date: 2025-06-10

Patch release to support Parquet data files. No changes are made to the standard (meta)data terms. There is no need to update your implementations or datasets.

The main changes are listed below (full diff here).

Package
  • resources is a required property in Data Package, but is now also defined as such in Camtrap DP, so this is clearer on the website (#387).
  • The table schemas now include NA, NaN and nan in addition to "" as allowed missingValues in support of Parquet data files (#408).
Example dataset
  • The example dataset now refers to the R package camtrapdp rather than camtraptor as related resource (#407).
Documentation

Camtrap DP 1.0.1

Release 1.0.1 - Release date: 2024-08-21

Patch release to support validation with frictionless-py 5.17 and up. No changes are made the standard (meta)data terms. There is no need to update your implementations or datasets, unless you want to validate Camtrap DPs with the latest version of frictionless-py.

The main changes are listed below (full diff here).

Package
  • Fix issue (missing first slash in "$ref": "#/$defs/version") preventing validation with frictionless-py 5.17 and up (#383).
  • Link to canonical https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/schemas/data-package.json (#384).
  • Use full URL (https://camtrap-dp.tdwg.org/data) to point to data page (#368).
Documentation
  • Example dataset’s observations.csv no longer starts with BOM character and datapackage.json no longer contains superfluous spatial.bbox(#370).
  • Update README, homepage and add CITATION.cff (#382).
  • Fix typos in test documentation (#372).

Camtrap DP 1.0

Release 1.0 - Release date: 2023-11-03

First major release of Camtrap DP.

Closes all remaining issues in milestone 1.0. The main changes compared to Camtrap DP 1.0-rc.1 are listed below (full diff here). Changes in bold have implications for software developers. Thanks to all contributors for getting us to this milestone!

Package
  • Updated term:project.samplingDesign refers to http://rs.tdwg.org/eco/terms/inventoryTypes (#351)
  • Updated term: project.captureMethod has a renamed enum value activityDetection (from motionDetection) (#361)
  • Deleted term: taxonomic.taxonIDReference (#363)
  • Updated term: taxonomic.taxonID is no longer required and appears after scientificName (#363)
Deployments
  • Table description updated to mention “camera placements”
  • Updated term: setupBy refers to http://rs.tdwg.org/eco/terms/samplingPerformedBy (#351)
  • Updated term: cameraDelay no longer mentions the word “trigger” (#360)
  • Updated term: cameraHeight refers to http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/minimumDistanceAboveSurfaceInMeters and http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/maximumDistanceAboveSurfaceInMeters (#362)
  • New term: cameraDepth for marine setups, refers to http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/minimumDepthInMeters and http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/maximumDepthInMeters (#362)
Media
  • Table description rephrased
  • Updated term: captureMethod has a renamed enum value activityDetection (from motionDetection) (#361)
  • Updated term: filePublic refers to http://rs.tdwg.org/ac/terms/serviceExpectation (#350)
  • Updated term: fileMediatype refers to http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/format and expects values to be a IANA Media Type that starts with image, video, or audio (#350)
  • Updated term: exifData has file type any to allow string representation of json in csv (#326)
Observations
  • Table description updated to fix typo
  • Updated term: observationType mentions the term classificationProbability for unknown values.
  • Deleted term: taxonID (#363)
Documentation
  • New website URL: https://camtrap-dp.tdwg.org (https://tdwg.github.io/camtrap-dp will automatically redirect) (#342)
  • Example dataset has at least one value for all columns (except for deployments.cameraDepth and observations.individual* columns) (#326)
  • Example dataset includes some local media files (#348)
  • Example dataset is documented with landing page (#334)

For pre-releases, see https://github.com/tdwg/camtrap-dp/releases.