Dear all,

Please upload this tar.gz including the whole
files (79 Go) for the 2015 challenge.

As already said, the 2015 challenge is including the 2014 files that
you already have seen / load. 

They are named LIFECLEF2014*, but you'll
have to reload them from this tar.gz.
Due to some small changes (other short trim),
remove of the "mystery" class which was unknown species...
all the files have been RENAMED in this Challenge 2015.

The train set of 2014 challenge is in the train set of 2015 challenge.
The test set of 2014 challenge is in the test set of 2015 challenge.
So we'll see the progression of the methods from 2014 to 2015, from
MAP computed on 2014 test set only. 

Warning : Challengers may use 2015 union 2014 train sets
to just compute 2014 test set... Then get better results.
So we'll ask challengers to precise in their final run
which set is used, so that you'll could
be challengers in 2014 only if you wish.

I'll install a Kaggle like system next week. You'll then be able to
test your model on 15% of the true test set on line, and see also the
progress of other teams (Emolution...). One run maximum per day.
Warning: details on methods won't be precised in this online system (train set...).

Only 4 final runs per team will submitted at the end. 
Final MAP will be computed on 85% ot the test set (the part not used
for online evaluation).
If you do not have time to process all the challenge files, you could
just answer with the 2014 test set. But it would be better to submit
the whole. Scores will be computed on the whole challenge, but also on
the 2014 test subset, and training methods will be precised.

XML with train / species and phylogeny comes tomorow.

ps : 2 two shortest files will be removed in the XML / TRAIN / TEST definitions

Cheers

Hervé