INFORMATION:(Late) sprint cleaning! EcoTaxa is growing but also getting a bit messy. It would be great if you could and delete the various "tests", "subsets for checking" or "copy" versions of your projects, before the summer break. They add up to a significant part of the data.
To transfer identifications from project A to project B, export project A in "Classification only" mode and import the file into project B in "Update metadata" mode (and tick "Allow update of classification data").
Welcome to Ecotaxa
If you use EcoTaxa in your work, we would appreciate if you cite it as:
Picheral M, Colin S, Irisson J-O (2017). EcoTaxa, a tool for the taxonomic classification of images : http://ecotaxa.obs-vlfr.fr
EcoTaxa was developped thanks to the support of the following organisations and projects:
which financed the development of the original version of the application through the Oceanomics project, dedicated to the analysis of Tara Oceans samples.
funded the hardware on which EcoTaxa ran for several years and the machine learning solution it permitted, through a joint project between Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université) and the University of Miami.
that funded a joint project with the company FOTONOWER [https://fotonower.com/], which explored machine learning solutions to improve the automatic classification system in EcoTaxa as well as implement visual similarity search.
which extended the work of the first Blue-Cloud project to allow finer querying of EcoTaxa's data through its Application Programming Interface and more accessible data thanks to the increased use of standard vocabularies.
which facilitated the flow of high quality data from EcoTaxa to the Digital Twin of the Ocean by improving quality control procedures before EcoTaxa and in its output as a DarwinCore Archive files.
which funded the development of dedicated pipelines for the automatic processing of images using EcoTaxa as a quality checking solution.
The maintenance of the software and hardware that allows EcoTaxa to run depends on the support of its users, who can be officially billed by the Quantitative Imaging Platform of Villefranche. We would very much appreciate if you would consider setting aside some funds in your next grant for this. Contact us to estimate what would be both reasonable and useful.
The persons who made EcoTaxa possible are:
Marc Picheral and Jean-Olivier Irisson: specifications and project supervision
Sébastien Colin: initial specification
Altidev, Laurent Salinas, Laurent Reese, Béatrice Caraveo: development
Simon-Martin Schröder, Benjamin Graham: deep learning implementation
Disclaimer :If you annotate images in EcoTaxa you cannot claim for any retribution from the application managers but you can then download and use the results of your work. Even if they make their best to keep the application stable and secure, the managers of the EcoTaxa application are not liable for the safekeeping of the images and associated data it hosts. You are responsible for performing regular backups.
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