These tutorial will cover some of the actions you can perform in Trapper. Trapper allows different features depending on your role and participation in media classification projects. This tutorial page will be roughly divided according to these differences
Roles in Trapper are hierarchically ordered. The following roles exist within the Trapper:
The least privileged type of user is the Anonymous one. Each successive role introduces more permissions:
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The hierarchy of privileges is as follows:
Staff > Expert > Crowd-Sourcing > Anonymous
Each role on the right of any other role has less privileges and features. At the same time, each role on the left has all the features and privileges as your role.
E.g.: if your role in the Trapper is Expert, tutorials for roles Crowd-Sourcing and Anonymous will also be relevant you.
Anonymous users of Trapper have a limited functionality. Namely, they cannot alter Trapper’s data in any way nor contribute to any of the ongoing media classification projects.
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As an anonymous user you have access to the following modules of Trapper:
- List of publicly available resources Storage > Resources
- List of publicly available collections Storage > Collections
- List of publicly available locations (displayed on the map) Geomap > Show map
- You can see a list of project by their names but you can’t see the details on any of it Media classification > Projects
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Once you log-in to Trapper, are recognized as a Crowd-Sourcing user, navigation bar will display more navigation options, namely:
Since you are a registered user now, you can edit your user profile, to do so navigate to your profile view (your user name next to a Logout button on the right).
When you click it, you can see the details about your profile. Below the table, you should see a button called Edit Profile. Clicking it will take you to the profile editing view in which you can alter the information about yourself.
In order to classify media resource go to navigation bar and select Media classification > Classify material.
At the moment, Trapper lets you pick the crowd-sourcing enabled resources for the classification. On the newly opened page you will see a list of ongoing media classification projects, and the resources available for the classification. Once you select given resource, you will see the media file associated with it (usually an image or a video). Your task is to describe the situation visible on the media according to some Features, e.g. How many animals are visible, and of what kind.
Once you make your decision, you can submit your classification data to the system.
Registered users have the ability to use Trappers messaging module.
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The module itself tries to mimic a standard (but very limited) e-mail functionality:
In order to send a message to another user, navigate to Messaging > New Message at the main navigation bar. You will be presented with a simple message form, in which you are to enter the message subject, the message itself, and a recipient.
Additionally to writing new messages, you can browse and read the incoming and outgoing correspondence by navigating to Messaging > Inbox and Messaging > Outbox correspondingly.
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Unread incoming messages and system notifications are also indicated by the altered icon of the Messaging menu at the main navigation bar.
Expert users are usually researchers operating on the whole collections of resources along with the context and the classification results. In future iterations of Trapper, this role will have access to many analytical modules, such as generating statistics and modeling patterns of behaviour of animals within the geo-spatial context.
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Expert users can benefit from many more of Trapper’s features:
Trapper’s staff members are usually the system administrators and the core maintainers of the Trapper instance. They have all the privileges by default, and have an access to Django‘s admin panel.
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Staff users will have an additional Admin Site button at the main navigation bar which takes them to the Django’s admin panel.