Universal Chalcidoidea Database World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids. hash://sha256/dc3f137ed7e456dd964545527cfff3acc3c1655baeaebecb6d07cdf3e1bbd549 hash://md5/7167f39628ac3d4434b7302133c79a1c

This repository contains an archival copy of the Universal Chalcidoidea Database by J.S. Noyes in their original Paradox Database (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_%28database%29) file format. 

All files were provided by J.S. Noyes on 2023-03-18 and consent was given to publish the data under CC0.

For getting started, please read the 00-Instructions.pdf first. Then, suggest to take a look at a flowchart in 01-Flowchart.pdf and the Table Structure in 02-TableStructure.pdf.

Citation
On use of this data, please follow academic tradition and cite the data using:  

Noyes, J.S. March 2019. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids. hash://sha256/dc3f137ed7e456dd964545527cfff3acc3c1655baeaebecb6d07cdf3e1bbd549 hash://md5/7167f39628ac3d4434b7302133c79a1c .

Signed Content 

Using Preston [1,2], the UCD content was packaged and their provenance was signed.

preston history\
 --anchor hash://sha256/dc3f137ed7e456dd964545527cfff3acc3c1655baeaebecb6d07cdf3e1bbd549\
 --remote https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jhpoelen/ucd/main/data\
 --remote https://zenodo.org/record/7844167/files\
 --remote https://softwareheritage.org\
 --remote https://linker.bio

yielded:

<hash://sha256/dc3f137ed7e456dd964545527cfff3acc3c1655baeaebecb6d07cdf3e1bbd549> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/298581b34133b518f251f4321f1920488afd923f3308e45b9c1d169da0e16b5b> .
<hash://sha256/298581b34133b518f251f4321f1920488afd923f3308e45b9c1d169da0e16b5b> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/dc3f137ed7e456dd964545527cfff3acc3c1655baeaebecb6d07cdf3e1bbd549> .
<hash://sha256/dc3f137ed7e456dd964545527cfff3acc3c1655baeaebecb6d07cdf3e1bbd549> <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom> <hash://sha256/eb416c97bf52a36b31ece2b47431a6a4a9bda7f52b9bc8ccb92f91f5c1bdf268> .
<urn:uuid:0659a54f-b713-4f86-a917-5be166a14110> <http://purl.org/pav/hasVersion> <hash://sha256/eb416c97bf52a36b31ece2b47431a6a4a9bda7f52b9bc8ccb92f91f5c1bdf268> .

This archive can be cloned using:

preston clone\
 --anchor hash://sha256/dc3f137ed7e456dd964545527cfff3acc3c1655baeaebecb6d07cdf3e1bbd549\
 --remote https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jhpoelen/ucd/main/data\
 --remote https://zenodo.org/record/7844167/files\
 --remote https://softwareheritage.org\
 --remote https://linker.bio

or alternatively, by downloading a zip archive from :

https://github.com/jhpoelen/ucd/archive/d60a7ae2c7549f156dff8ae2caadb4ddaf6f31b5.zip

References

[1] MJ Elliott, JH Poelen, JAB Fortes (2020). Toward Reliable Biodiversity Dataset References. Ecological Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2020.101132

[2] Elliott, M. J., Poelen, J. H., & Fortes, J. (2023, accepted with minor revisions). Signed Citations: Making Persistent and Verifiable Citations of Digital Scientific Content. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/wycjn