BMD - Guidelines for Mobilizing Camtrap Data Packages to GBIF with IPT

For who is this manual? This is a user manual, intended for natural resource managers, researchers, the biomonitoring community, and others. Its focus is on publishing data of camera traps with pre-fabricated Camtrap DPs and the IPT. Therefore, we are not describing the R package camtrapdp (Desmet et al. 2026) which is able to read and manipulate Camtrap DP, and other tools such as e.g. camtraptor or camtrapR (Niedballa et al. 2016), more info in Bubnicki et al. (2023). For more background information on camera trap data we refer to Reyserhove et al. (2025).We also assume some basic knowledge on how to use the IPT for publishing data at GBIF. If this is not the case, we refer to the website of GBIF where you can find an user manual of the IPT (Wieczorek et al. 2026).