Bat Literature Project (BatLit, https://batlit.org) v0.8 hash://md5/330417efcaa2560c9b8ebcd6fae17ce0 - Reference List, Metadata, and Associated Zenodo Deposits

The Bat Literature Project (BatLit) facilitates discovery of scientific literature on bats (Chiroptera).

This data publication contains versioned Zotero metadata and provenance of the batlit literature (Sherman et al. 2024) records, as tracked by Preston (a biodiversity data tracker, Elliott et al. 2020,2023) using the following workflow:

ZOTERO_TOKEN=[SECRET]\
 preston track\
 --algo md5\
 https://www.zotero.org/groups/5435545/bat_literature_project

in which ZOTERO_TOKEN is an API token with sufficient access to Zotero's Bat Literature Project group. Note that, for this publication, the pdf content was not included for copyright reasons. However, secure links (i.e. md5 content hashes) to these PDFs are embedded in the archives. The result is a version corpus of batlit metadata, and their origins, packaged in tar.gz and zip archives.  

BatLit Literature Record Index

Literature records can be extracted from this corpus in various ways. As an example, we show the output of an executed script in list-refs.sh against a recent version of the BatLit Corpus, both of which are provided in included batlit metadata archives (i.e., data.zip, data.tar.gz). For ease of processing, we’ve included a sample of 3 records in the table below, as well as files in tsv/csv formats include 100 records and all records.

First 3 records shown below as an example, and was generated by running:

bash list-refs.sh\
 | head -4\
 | mlr --icsv --oxtab cat 

Note that id points to the records as seen on Zotero, attachment points to the attachment records as seen on Zotero, attachmentId is the signature/hash of the associated pdf, corpusId is the signature/hash of the applicable BatLit version (see version table below).

authors      Douglas
date         1967
title        Article: The Natural History of the Ghost Bat, Macroderma Gigas (Microchiroptera Megadermatidae), in Western Australia
journal      Western Australia. The Western Australian Naturalist
type         journalArticle
volume       10
issue        
pages        125-138
doi          
id           https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/M5MZ6NSB
attachment   https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/223GU789
attachmentId hash://md5/5e3f7fac483550be7983c6096e9e9800
corpusId     hash://md5/ce1e7618f237ff56e74d51f496e811a3

authors      Vora | Hannah | Lieberman | Vale | Plowright | Bernstein
date         2022-05
title        Want to prevent pandemics? Stop spillovers
journal      Nature
type         journalArticle
volume       605
issue        7910
pages        419-422
doi          10.1038/d41586-022-01312-y
id           https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/A5RNP5YH
attachment   https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/223P42N5
attachmentId hash://md5/85c89cedcc23b072f98f3c22ad731029
corpusId     hash://md5/ce1e7618f237ff56e74d51f496e811a3

authors      Otto | Rall | Brose
date         12/2007
title        Allometric degree distributions facilitate food-web stability
journal      Nature
type         journalArticle
volume       450
issue        7173
pages        1226-1229
doi          10.1038/nature06359
id           https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/6RAB386Y
attachment   https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/225DJR2Q
attachmentId hash://md5/6bdc818006c01cac3dd90eec4b337289
corpusId     hash://md5/ce1e7618f237ff56e74d51f496e811a3

BatLit Literature Record Index on Zenodo

Most BatLlit records are dissemated through Zenodo. The files ending with "on_zenodo" contains associations of batlit records with their deposits on Zenodo. 

See, for instance, the first record in refs-on-zenodo.csv as listed below in XTAB format along with the the bash script that produced it. Note that the alternativeDoi and alternativeDoiUrl point to a Zenodo deposit of Douglas 1967 at doi:10.5281/zenodo.13521017 (as seen on Zenodo on 2025-02-07). 

cat refs-on-zenodo.csv\
 | head -2\
 | mlr --icsv --oxtab cat

authors                Douglas
date                   1967
title                  Article: The Natural History of the Ghost Bat, Macroderma Gigas (Microchiroptera Megadermatidae), in Western Australia
journal                Western Australia. The Western Australian Naturalist
type                   journalArticle
volume                 10
issue                  
pages                  125-138
doi                    
id                     https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/M5MZ6NSB
attachment             https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/223GU789
attachmentId           hash://md5/5e3f7fac483550be7983c6096e9e9800
corpusId               hash://md5/ce1e7618f237ff56e74d51f496e811a3
alternativeDoi         10.5281/zenodo.13521017
alternativeDoiUrl      https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13521017
zenodoResponseCorpusId hash://md5/510ea4383290c96d75e6190f83578d21

Version History

For more information contact Aja Sherman (aja.sherman22@gmail.com), Cullen Geiselman (cullen@werinterests.com), or Jorrit Poelen (jhpoelen@jhpoelen.nl).

Cite as: A.C. Sherman, J.H. Poelen, D. Agosti, N. Upham, N.B. Simmons, J.S. Zijlstra, and C.K. Geiselman. 2025. Bat Literature Project (BatLit, https://batlit.org) v0.8 hash://md5/330417efcaa2560c9b8ebcd6fae17ce0 .