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Upload your already catalogued data

If you've already catalogued your data and identified species in images, you don't need to let all that hard work go to waste! You can bring all of your old and new data together in Wildlife Insights. Continue reading below to learn how you can bulk upload all of your catalogued data into Wildlife Insights.

Note: Bulk upload services are currently only available as a paid service. If you are interested in bulk uploading your data, contact the Wildlife Insights team at [email protected] for pricing.

1. Download the batch upload templates

To batch upload your annotated data into Wildlife Insights, you'll need to make sure your data is in the bulk upload template format. The four files needed to complete a bulk upload for one project are: Project, Camera, Deployment and Image .csv files. To get started:

2. Complete the templates with your data

Enter your information into each of the templates. Refer to the Batch Upload Data Dictionary for default values, accepted formats, and required fields. Below are a few important steps to complete and recommendations to consider as you complete the templates:

3. Submit completed templates to Wildlife Insights

Once you finalize your batch upload template, please contact the Wildlife Insights team at  [email protected] with a short description of your project and the completed templates. The Wildlife Insights team will validate that your templates are correctly completed and contact you about the next steps.
 

4. Upload images to Google Cloud Platform

You can transfer images to Wildlife Insights by either making them available from a public URL (e.g., a Google Drive, AWS link, etc.) or uploading them directly to a private storage bucket in the Google Cloud Platform.

Note: Please avoid spaces and special characters (hyphens and underscores are OK) in your folder paths and file names.

Uploading images to Google Cloud Platform

A. Please share your Google account name with the Wildlife Insights admins. This can either be a Gmail or an associated business Google Cloud account. The Wildlife Insights Admin will associate your account with a private storage object in Wildlife Insight's Google Cloud Platform and assign you access to the GCP storage bucket. 

B. Install gsutil

 

C. Uploading Batch Upload Templates and Images to GCP

Once you have gsutil installed, the next step is to upload your images. WI Admins will create a top-level ‘bucket’ to house images for your organization. In this example, the bucket is called gs://LondonHogwatch

To copy files from your local storage location (i.e., laptop, attached drive, SAN, etc.) you will need to follow these steps:

gsutil -m cp -r YOUR_TOP_LEVEL IMAGE_DIR gs://LondonHogwatch

The above command means the following:

-m: starts many computer threads to upload (i.e., this means it will upload more than one image at a time);
cp: copy;
-r: recursive, or that all images and directories below your’ top level image dir’ will be copied.

In this example, the command would be 

gsutil -m cp -r Desktop/LH_Project1 gs://LondonHogwatch