Introduction

Data Review and Archive

Data review and archiving can be a time-consuming process, especially when done manually. This review report aims to help facilitate both activities. It automates the archiving of datasets, including Darwin Core archives, and is a citable backup of a version of the dataset. Additionally, an automatic review of species interaction claims made in the dataset is generated and registered with Global Biotic Interactions (J. H. Poelen, Simons, and Mungall 2014).

This review includes summary statistics about, and observations about, the dataset under review:

Sarah E Miller. 9/15/2016. Species associations extracted from http://parasiticplants.siu.edu/index.html. https://zenodo.org/records/258206/files/millerse/parasitic-plant-connection-v1.0.zip 2025-04-12T15:07:35.021Z hash://md5/ce5db64926c65b474f8c7744b76a95d0

For additional metadata related to this dataset, please visit https://github.com/millerse/parasitic-plant-connection and inspect associated metadata files including, but not limited to, README.md, eml.xml, and/or globi.json.

Methods

The review is performed through programmatic scripts that leverage tools like Preston (Elliott et al. 2025), Elton (Kuhn, Poelen, and Leinweber 2025), Nomer (Salim and Poelen 2025), globinizer (J. Poelen, Seltmann, and Mietchen 2024) combined with third-party tools like grep, mlr, tail and head.

Tools used in this review process

tool name	version
preston	0.10.1
elton	0.15.9
nomer	0.5.13
globinizer	0.4.0
mlr	6.0.0
jq	1.6
yq	4.25.3
pandoc	3.1.6.1

The review process can be described in the form of the script below ¹.

# get versioned copy of the dataset (size approx. 56.5KiB) under review 
elton pull millerse/parasitic-plant-connection

# generate review notes
elton review millerse/parasitic-plant-connection\
 > review.tsv

# export indexed interaction records
elton interactions millerse/parasitic-plant-connection\
 > interactions.tsv

# export names and align them with the Catalogue of Life using Nomer 
elton names millerse/parasitic-plant-connection\
 | nomer append col\
 > name-alignment.tsv

or visually, in a process diagram.

Review Process Overview

You can find a copy of the full review script at check-data.sh. See also GitHub and Codeberg.

Results

In the following sections, the results of the review are summarized ². Then, links to the detailed review reports are provided.

Files

The following files are produced in this review:

filename	description
biblio.bib	list of bibliographic reference of this review
check-dataset.sh	data review workflow/process as expressed in a bash script
data.zip	a versioned Preston (Elliott et al. 2025) archive of the data under review
HEAD	the digital signature of the data under review
index.docx	review in MS Word format
index.html	review in HTML format
index.md	review in Pandoc markdown format
index.pdf	review in PDF format
indexed-citations.csv.gz	list of distinct reference citations for reviewed species interaction claims in gzipped comma-separated values file format
indexed-citations.html.gz	list of distinct reference citations for reviewed species interactions claims in gzipped html file format
indexed-citations.tsv.gz	list of distinct reference citations for reviewed species interaction claims in gzipped tab-separated values format
indexed-interactions-col-family-col-family.svg	network diagram showing the taxon family to taxon family interaction claims in the dataset under review as interpreted by the Catalogue of Life via Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024)
indexed-interactions-col-kingdom-col-kingdom.svg	network diagram showing the taxon kingdom to taxon kingom interaction claims in the dataset under review as interpreted by the Catalogue of Life via Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024)
indexed-interactions.csv.gz	species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in gzipped comma-separated values format
indexed-interactions.html.gz	species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in gzipped html format
indexed-interactions.tsv.gz	species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in gzipped tab-separated values format
indexed-interactions-sample.csv	list of species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in gzipped comma-separated values format
indexed-interactions-sample.html	first 500 species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in html format
indexed-interactions-sample.tsv	first 500 species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in tab-separated values format
indexed-names.csv.gz	taxonomic names indexed from the dataset under review in gzipped comma-separated values format
indexed-names.html.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review in gzipped html format
indexed-names.tsv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review in gzipped tab-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-col.csv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Catalogue of Life as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-col.html.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Catalogue of Life as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format
indexed-names-resolved-col.tsv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Catalogue of Life as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-discoverlife.csv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Discover Life bee species checklist as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-discoverlife.html.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Discover Life bee species checklist as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format
indexed-names-resolved-discoverlife.tsv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Discover Life bee species checklist as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-gbif.csv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with GBIF Backbone Taxonomy as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-gbif.html.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with GBIF Backbone Taxonomy as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format
indexed-names-resolved-gbif.tsv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with GBIF Backbone Taxonomy as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-itis.csv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-itis.html.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format
indexed-names-resolved-itis.tsv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-mdd.csv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Mammal Diversity Database as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-mdd.html.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Mammal Diversity Database as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format
indexed-names-resolved-mdd.tsv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Mammal Diversity Database as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-ncbi.csv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the NCBI Taxonomy as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-ncbi.html.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the NCBI Taxonomy as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format
indexed-names-resolved-ncbi.tsv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the NCBI Taxonomy as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-pbdb.csv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Paleobiology Database as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-pbdb.html.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Paleobiology Database as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format
indexed-names-resolved-pbdb.tsv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Paleobiology Database as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-tpt.csv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT) Taxonomic Resource as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-tpt.html.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT) Taxonomic Resource as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format
indexed-names-resolved-tpt.tsv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT) Taxonomic Resource as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-wfo.csv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the World of Flora Online as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-wfo.html.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the World of Flora Online as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format
indexed-names-resolved-wfo.tsv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the World of Flora Online as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-worms.csv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format
indexed-names-resolved-worms.html.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format
indexed-names-resolved-worms.tsv.gz	taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format
indexed-names-sample.csv	first 500 taxonomic names found in the dataset under review in comma-separated values format
indexed-names-sample.html	first 500 taxonomic names found in the dataset under review in html format
indexed-names-sample.tsv	first 500 taxonomic names found in the dataset under review in tab-separated values format
interaction.svg	diagram summarizing the data model used to index species interaction claims
nanopub-sample.trig	first 500 species interaction claims as expressed in the nanopub format (Kuhn and Dumontier 2014)
nanopub.trig.gz	species interaction claims as expressed in the nanopub format (Kuhn and Dumontier 2014)
process.svg	diagram summarizing the data review processing workflow
prov.nq	origin of the dataset under review as expressed in rdf/nquads
review.csv.gz	review notes associated with the dataset under review in gzipped comma-separated values format
review.html.gz	review notes associated with the dataset under review in gzipped html format
review.tsv.gz	review notes associated with the dataset under review in gzipped tab-separated values format
review-sample.csv	first 500 review notes associated with the dataset under review in comma-separated values format
review-sample.html	first 500 review notes associated with the dataset under review in html format
review-sample.tsv	first 500 review notes associated with the dataset under review in tab-separated values format
review.svg	a review badge generated as part of the dataset review process
zenodo.json	metadata of this review expressed in Zenodo record metadata

Archived Dataset

Note that data.zip file in this archive contains the complete, unmodified archived dataset under review.

Biotic Interactions

Biotic Interaction Data Model

In this review, biotic interactions (or biotic associations) are modeled as a primary (aka subject, source) organism interacting with an associate (aka object, target) organism. The dataset under review classified the primary/associate organisms with specific taxa. The primary and associate organisms The kind of interaction is documented as an interaction type.

The dataset under review, named millerse/parasitic-plant-connection, has fingerprint hash://md5/ce5db64926c65b474f8c7744b76a95d0, is 56.5KiB in size and contains 215 interactions with 4 unique types of associations (e.g., parasiteOf) between 168 primary taxa (e.g., Arceuthobium campylopodum subsp. tsugense) and 181 associated taxa (e.g., Coleus).

An exhaustive list of indexed interaction claims can be found in gzipped csv and tsv archives. To facilitate discovery, a preview of claims available in the gzipped html page at indexed-interactions.html.gz are shown below.

The exhaustive list was used to create the following data summaries below.

Sample of Indexed Interaction Claims

sourceTaxonName	interactionTypeName	targetTaxonName	referenceCitation
Aetanthus mutisii	parasiteOf	Quercus	http://parasiticplants.siu.edu/Loranthaceae/
Agelanthus prunifolius	parasiteOf	Rhus	http://parasiticplants.siu.edu/Loranthaceae/
Amyema fasciculata	parasiteOf	Bischofia javanica	http://parasiticplants.siu.edu/Loranthaceae/
Amylotheca subumbellata	parasiteOf	Rhodamnia trineura	http://parasiticplants.siu.edu/Loranthaceae/

Most Frequently Mentioned Interaction Types (up to 20 most frequent)

interactionTypeName	count
parasiteOf	212
eatenBy	1
pollinatedBy	1
visitsFlowersOf	1

Most Frequently Mentioned Primary Taxa (up to 20 most frequent)

sourceTaxonName	count
Arceuthobium campylopodum subsp. tsugense	4
Cucuta campestris	4
Apodanthes caseariae	3
Cuscuta pacifica	3
Cytinus hypocistis	3
Ombrophytum subterraneum	3
Arceuthobium douglasii	2
Cassytha filiformis	2
Conopholis americana	2
Cuscuta approximata ssp. approximata	2
Cuscuta cuspidata	2
Cuscuta exaltata	2
Cuscuta gronovii	2
Cuscuta reflexa	2
Cuscuta rostrata	2
Dendrophthoe homoplastica	2
Desmaria mutabilis	2
Korthalsella lindsayi	2
Korthalsella salicornioides	2

Most Frequently Mentioned Associate Taxa (up to 20 most frequent)

targetTaxonName	count
Coleus	10
Quercus	4
Nothofagus antarctica	4
Nothofagus dombeyii	4
Ficus	3
Acacia	3
Casearia	2
Pinus wallichiana	2
Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum	2
Bursera	2
Trifolium	2
Artemisia	2
Impatiens	2
Mangifera indica	2
Rhododendron arboreum	2
Centaurea scabiosa	2
Euphorbia	2
Colletia spinosissima	2
Rhus	1

Most Frequent Interactions between Primary and Associate Taxa (up to 20 most frequent)

sourceTaxonName	interactionTypeName	targetTaxonName	count
Apodanthes caseariae	parasiteOf	Casearia	2
Misodendrum angulatum	parasiteOf	Nothofagus dombeyii	2
Orobanche elatior	parasiteOf	Centaurea scabiosa	2
Aetanthus mutisii	parasiteOf	Quercus	1
Agelanthus prunifolius	parasiteOf	Rhus	1
Amyema fasciculata	parasiteOf	Bischofia javanica	1
Amylotheca subumbellata	parasiteOf	Rhodamnia trineura	1
Antidaphne punctulata	parasiteOf	Desfontainia spinosa	1
Apodanthes caseariae	parasiteOf	Casearia stjohnii	1
Arceuthobium americanum	parasiteOf	Pinus contorta	1
Arceuthobium bicarinatum	parasiteOf	Pinus occidentalis	1
Arceuthobium campylopodum subsp. abietinum	parasiteOf	Abies magnifica	1
Arceuthobium campylopodum subsp. blumeri	parasiteOf	Pinus strobiformis	1
Arceuthobium campylopodum subsp. campylopodum	parasiteOf	Pinus jeffreyi	1
Arceuthobium campylopodum subsp. cyanocarpum	parasiteOf	Pinus ponderosa	1
Arceuthobium campylopodum subsp. tsugense	parasiteOf	Abies lasiocarpa	1
Arceuthobium campylopodum subsp. tsugense	parasiteOf	Pinus albicaulis	1
Arceuthobium campylopodum subsp. tsugense	parasiteOf	Pinus contorta ssp. contorta	1
Arceuthobium campylopodum subsp. tsugense	parasiteOf	Tsuga mertensiana	1

Interaction Networks

The figures below provide a graph view on the dataset under review. The first shows a summary network on the kingdom level, and the second shows how interactions on the family level. It is important to note that both network graphs were first aligned taxonomically using the Catalogue of Life. Please refer to the original (or verbatim) taxonomic names for a more original view on the interaction data.

Interactions on taxonomic kingdom rank as interpreted by the Catalogue of Life download svg Interactions on the taxonomic family rank as interpreted by the Catalogue of Life. download svg

You can download the indexed dataset under review at indexed-interactions.csv.gz. A tab-separated file can be found at indexed-interactions.tsv.gz

Learn more about the structure of this download at GloBI website, by opening a GitHub issue, or by sending an email.

Another way to discover the dataset under review is by searching for it on the GloBI website.

Taxonomic Alignment

As part of the review, all names are aligned against various name catalogs (e.g., col, ncbi, discoverlife, gbif, itis, wfo, mdd, tpt, pbdb, and worms). These alignments can help review name usage or aid in selecting of a suitable taxonomic name resource.

Sample of Name Alignments

providedName	relationName	resolvedCatalogName	resolvedName
Arceuthobium campylopodum ssp. abietinum	NONE	col	Arceuthobium campylopodum ssp. abietinum
Arceuthobium campylopodum ssp. blumeri	NONE	col	Arceuthobium campylopodum ssp. blumeri
Arceuthobium campylopodum ssp. campylopodum	NONE	col	Arceuthobium campylopodum ssp. campylopodum
Arceuthobium campylopodum ssp. cyanocarpum	NONE	col	Arceuthobium campylopodum ssp. cyanocarpum

Distribution of Taxonomic Ranks of Aligned Names by Catalog. Names that were not aligned with a catalog are counted as NAs. So, the total number of unaligned names for a catalog will be listed in their NA row.

resolvedCatalogName	resolvedRank	count
col	NA	36
col	genus	56
col	section	1
col	species	250
col	subspecies	14
col	variety	2
discoverlife	NA	347
gbif	NA	26
gbif	genus	56
gbif	species	258
gbif	subspecies	16
gbif	variety	6
itis	NA	186
itis	genus	49
itis	species	107
itis	subspecies	3
itis	variety	2
mdd	NA	347
ncbi	NA	69
ncbi	genus	56
ncbi	species	222
ncbi	subgenus	1
pbdb	NA	309
pbdb	genus	32
pbdb	species	6
tpt	NA	346
tpt	species	1
wfo	NA	40
wfo	form	1
wfo	genus	54
wfo	species	253
wfo	subspecies	4
worms	NA	293
worms	genus	29
worms	species	25
worms	subspecies	1

Name relationship types per catalog. Name relationship type "NONE" means that a name was not recognized by the associated catalog. "SAME_AS" indicates either a "HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME" or "SYNONYM_OF" name relationship type. We recognize that "SYNONYM_OF" encompasses many types of nomenclatural synonymies

resolvedCatalogName	relationName	count
col	NONE	36
col	SYNONYM_OF	116
col	HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME	288
discoverlife	NONE	347
gbif	NONE	26
gbif	SYNONYM_OF	209
gbif	HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME	358
itis	NONE	186
itis	HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME	151
itis	SYNONYM_OF	17
mdd	NONE	346
mdd	HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME	1
ncbi	NONE	69
ncbi	SYNONYM_OF	20
ncbi	SAME_AS	261
pbdb	NONE	309
pbdb	HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME	43
tpt	NONE	346
tpt	HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME	1
wfo	NONE	40
wfo	SYNONYM_OF	41
wfo	HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME	289
wfo	HAS_UNCHECKED_NAME	10
worms	NONE	293
worms	HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME	61
worms	SYNONYM_OF	9

List of Available Name Alignment Reports

catalog name	alignment results
col	associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv)
ncbi	associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv)
discoverlife	associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv)
gbif	associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv)
itis	associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv)
wfo	associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv)
mdd	associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv)
tpt	associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv)
pbdb	associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv)
worms	associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv)

Additional Reviews

Elton, Nomer, and other tools may have difficulties interpreting existing species interaction datasets. Or, they may misbehave, or otherwise show unexpected behavior. As part of the review process, detailed review notes are kept that document possibly misbehaving, or confused, review bots. An sample of review notes associated with this review can be found below.

First few lines in the review notes.

reviewDate	reviewCommentType	reviewComment
2025-04-18T19:19:17Z	note	failed to lookup [GEONAMES:953987] because of: [resource [http://api.geonames.org/getJSON?formatted=true&geonameId=953987&username=globi&style=full] not found]
2025-04-18T19:19:17Z	note	failed to lookup [GEONAMES:1686536] because of: [resource [http://api.geonames.org/getJSON?formatted=true&geonameId=1686536&username=globi&style=full] not found]
2025-04-18T19:19:17Z	note	failed to lookup [GEONAMES:7839399] because of: [resource [http://api.geonames.org/getJSON?formatted=true&geonameId=7839399&username=globi&style=full] not found]
2025-04-18T19:19:17Z	note	failed to lookup [GEONAMES:3895114] because of: [resource [http://api.geonames.org/getJSON?formatted=true&geonameId=3895114&username=globi&style=full] not found]

In addition, you can find the most frequently occurring notes in the table below.

Most frequently occurring review notes, if any.

reviewComment	count
failed to lookup [GEONAMES:3895114] because of: [resource [http://api.geonames.org/getJSON?formatted=true&geonameId=3895114&username=globi&style=full] not found]	12
failed to lookup [GEONAMES:953987] because of: [resource [http://api.geonames.org/getJSON?formatted=true&geonameId=953987&username=globi&style=full] not found]	5
failed to lookup [GEONAMES:2186224] because of: [resource [http://api.geonames.org/getJSON?formatted=true&geonameId=2186224&username=globi&style=full] not found]	5
failed to lookup [GEONAMES:5735869] because of: [resource [http://api.geonames.org/getJSON?formatted=true&geonameId=5735869&username=globi&style=full] not found]	3

For additional information on review notes, please have a look at the first 500 Review Notes in html format or the download full gzipped csv or tsv archives.

GloBI Review Badge

As part of the review, a review badge is generated. This review badge can be included in webpages to indicate the review status of the dataset under review.

Picture of a GloBI Review Badge ³

Note that if the badge is green, no review notes were generated. If the badge is yellow, the review bots may need some help with interpreting the species interaction data.

GloBI Index Badge

If the dataset under review has been registered with GloBI, and has been succesfully indexed by GloBI, the GloBI Index Status Badge will turn green. This means that the dataset under review was indexed by GloBI and is available through GloBI services and derived data products.

Picture of a GloBI Index Badge ⁴

If you'd like to keep track of reviews or index status of the dataset under review, please visit GloBI's dataset index ⁵ for badge examples.

Discussion

This review and archive provides a means of creating citable versions of datasets that change frequently. This may be useful for dataset managers, including natural history collection data managers, as a backup archive of a shared Darwin Core archive. It also serves as a means of creating a trackable citation for the dataset in an automated way, while also including some information about the contents of the dataset.

This review aims to provide a perspective on the dataset to aid in understanding of species interaction claims discovered. However, it is important to note that this review does not assess the quality of the dataset. Instead, it serves as an indication of the open-ness⁶ and FAIRness (Wilkinson et al. 2016; Trekels et al. 2023) of the dataset: to perform this review, the data was likely openly available, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. The current Open-FAIR assessment is qualitative, and a more quantitative approach can be implemented with specified measurement units.

This report also showcases the reuse of machine-actionable (meta)data, something highly recommended by the FAIR Data Principles (Wilkinson et al. 2016). Making (meta)data machine-actionable enables more precise procesing by computers, enabling even naive review bots like Nomer and Elton to interpret the data effectively. This capability is crucial for not just automating the generation of reports, but also for facilitating seamless data exchanges, promoting interoperability.

Acknowledgements

We thank the many humans that created us and those who created and maintained the data, software and other intellectual resources that were used for producing this review. In addition, we are grateful for the natural resources providing the basis for these human and bot activities. Also, thanks to https://github.com/zygoballus for helping improve the layout of the review tables.

Author contributions

Nomer was responsible for name alignments. Elton carried out dataset extraction, and generated the review notes. Preston tracked, versioned, and packaged, the dataset under review.

References

1. Note that you have to first get the data (e.g., via elton pull millerse/parasitic-plant-connection) before being able to generate reviews (e.g., elton review millerse/parasitic-plant-connection), extract interaction claims (e.g., elton interactions millerse/parasitic-plant-connection), or list taxonomic names (e.g., elton names millerse/parasitic-plant-connection)↩︎

2. Disclaimer: The results in this review should be considered friendly, yet naive, notes from an unsophisticated robot. Please keep that in mind when considering the review results.↩︎

3. Up-to-date status of the GloBI Review Badge can be retrieved from the GloBI Review Depot↩︎

4. Up-to-date status of the GloBI Index Badge can be retrieved from GloBI's API↩︎

5. At time of writing (2025-04-18) the version of the GloBI dataset index was available at https://globalbioticinteractions.org/datasets↩︎

6. According to http://opendefinition.org/: "Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike."↩︎