etn

Provides functionality to access data from the European Tracking Network (ETN) database hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) as part of the Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.
https://github.com/inbo/etn

Category: Biosphere
Sub Category: Marine Life and Fishery

Keywords

animal-movement animal-tracking biologging data-access fish lifewatch oscibio r r-package rstats

Keywords from Contributors

opencpu biodiversity gbif biodiversity-informatics invasive-species checklist occurrences darwin-core frictionlessdata birds

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R package to access data from the European Tracking Network

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/inbo/etn
• Owner: inbo
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-06-30T15:26:34.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-10-07T11:48:08.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-26T15:40:04.523Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: animal-movement, animal-tracking, biologging, data-access, fish, lifewatch, oscibio, r, r-package, rstats
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://inbo.github.io/etn/
• Size: 139 MB
• Stars: 10
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 69
• Releases: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • Changelog: NEWS.md
  • Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Citation: CITATION.cff

README.Rmd

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# etn 


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Etn provides functionality to access data from the [European Tracking Network (ETN)](http://www.lifewatch.be/etn/) database hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) as part of the Flemish contribution to LifeWatch. ETN data is subject to the [ETN data policy](http://www.lifewatch.be/etn/assets/docs/ETN-DataPolicy.pdf) and can be:
 
- restricted: under moratorium and only accessible to logged-in data owners/collaborators
- unrestricted: publicly accessible without login and routinely published to international biodiversity facilities
 
The ETN infrastructure currently requires the package to be run within the [LifeWatch.be RStudio server](http://rstudio.lifewatch.be/), which is password protected. A login can be requested at http://www.lifewatch.be/etn/contact.

## Installation

You can install the development version of etn from [GitHub](https://github.com/) with:

``` r
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("inbo/etn")
```

## Meta

- We welcome [contributions](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) including bug reports.
- License: MIT
- Get citation information for etn in R doing `citation("etn")`.
- Please note that this project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](.github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

        

Citation (CITATION.cff)

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# See also: https://docs.ropensci.org/cffr/
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license: MIT
title: 'etn: Access Data from the European Tracking Network'
version: 2.2.2
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15235747
abstract: Package with functions to access and process data from the European Tracking
  Network hosted by VLIZ.
authors:
- family-names: Huybrechts
  given-names: Pieter
  email: pieter.huybrechts@inbo.be
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6658-6062
- family-names: Desmet
  given-names: Peter
  email: peter.desmet@inbo.be
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025
- family-names: Oldoni
  given-names: Damiano
  email: damiano.oldoni@inbo.be
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3445-7562
- family-names: Van Hoey
  given-names: Stijn
  email: stijnvanhoey@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6413-3185
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'etn: Access Data from the European Tracking Network'
  authors:
  - family-names: Huybrechts
    given-names: Pieter
    email: pieter.huybrechts@inbo.be
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6658-6062
  - family-names: Desmet
    given-names: Peter
    email: peter.desmet@inbo.be
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  - family-names: Oldoni
    given-names: Damiano
    email: damiano.oldoni@inbo.be
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  year: '2025'
  notes: R package version 2.2.2
  url: https://inbo.github.io/etn/
  doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15235747
repository-code: https://github.com/inbo/etn
url: https://inbo.github.io/etn
contact:
- family-names: Huybrechts
  given-names: Pieter
  email: pieter.huybrechts@inbo.be
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keywords:
- animal-movement
- animal-tracking
- biologging
- data-access
- fish
- lifewatch
- oscibio
- r
- r-package
- rstats
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