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 is the data management layer for the Image-Based Ecological Information System (IBEIS). IBEIS computer vision components pull data from Wildbook servers to detect features in images and identify individual animals. IBEIS brings massive-scale computer vision to wildlife research for the first time.

Please see Wildbook.org for documentation and support. Support resources include:

• User Manual
• Configuration Guide
• Discussion Forum
• Wild Me Professional Services

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