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Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) Review Dataset Corpus hash://md5/9f9f111af19f657e31ce04b9d422eed4 hash://sha256/8467e21bf1194cbbcb201b3ee2bbee0e2d657a772b4e3ce62fc63afe9116c626

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Description

To help make species interaction datasets easier to access, Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI, https://globalbioticinteractions.org) reviews existing datasets and makes their associated review reports available via https://zenodo.org/community/globi-review .

This data publication contains data.zip, an archive of versioned datasets under review and datasets.tsv, a list of dataset identifiers associated with those captured in the archive. 

To avoid naming conflicts, content is stored by their content identifiers (i.e., md5 hashes) in data.zip. 

To access the data under review, specialized tools preston and elton may be used. Please see the following technical information section for more details and examples. Also, please see Elliott et al. 2020,2023 for information about the data tracking and archiving methods used. 

To help show an example of the output, versions of first 10 and last 10 records (i.e., interactions-first-10.tsv, interactions-first-10.json, interactions-first-10.json, interactions-last-10.json) are provided in json/tsv formats. In addition, all records are included in files interactions.tsv.gz ,  interactions.json.gz and interactions.parquet . 

 

 

Technical info

To clone the data locally, use the following bash script:

preston ls \
 --algo md5 \
 --remote https://zenodo.org \
 --anchor hash://md5/9f9f111af19f657e31ce04b9d422eed4 \
 > /dev/null

Also, interactions from the corpus can be extracted using 

preston ls \
 --algo md5 \
 --anchor hash://md5/9f9f111af19f657e31ce04b9d422eed4 \
 --remote https://zenodo.org \
 | elton stream \
 --algo md5 \
 --anchor hash://md5/9f9f111af19f657e31ce04b9d422eed4 \
 --data-dir data \
 | gzip \
 > interactions.tsv.gz

Note that a generated interactions.tsv.gz is included in this publication.

The first interaction record in this file is  (in xtab format) -

argumentTypeId                         https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/support
sourceOccurrenceId                     
sourceCatalogNumber                    
sourceCollectionCode                   
sourceCollectionId                     
sourceInstitutionCode                  
sourceTaxonId                          150180190
sourceTaxonName                        Parectopa melanoxyla
sourceTaxonRank                        
sourceTaxonPathIds                     
sourceTaxonPath                        
sourceTaxonPathNames                   
sourceBodyPartId                       
sourceBodyPartName                     
sourceLifeStageId                      
sourceLifeStageName                    
sourceSexId                            
sourceSexName                          
interactionTypeId                      http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002454
interactionTypeName                    hasHost
targetOccurrenceId                     
targetCatalogNumber                    
targetCollectionCode                   
targetCollectionId                     
targetInstitutionCode                  
targetTaxonId                          
targetTaxonName                        Acacia melanoxylon R. Br., 1813
targetTaxonRank                        
targetTaxonPathIds                     
targetTaxonPath                        
targetTaxonPathNames                   
targetBodyPartId                       
targetBodyPartName                     
targetLifeStageId                      
targetLifeStageName                    
targetSexId                            
targetSexName                          
basisOfRecordId                        
basisOfRecordName                      
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/eventDate 
decimalLatitude                        
decimalLongitude                       
localityId                             
localityName                           
referenceDoi                           
referenceUrl                           https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5616.1.1
referenceCitation                      De Prins, J., Hartley, D., Sruoga, J., Nicholls, J., Wallace, J. & Zwick, A., 2025, Diversity of Australian Ornixolinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) with taxonomic and nomenclatural acts within the related taxa (Acrocercopinae and Gracillariinae) based on the evidence of museomics, bionomics, and mitogenomics. vol 5616 issue 1 pages 1–340
namespace                              urn:lsid:checklistbank.org:dataset:1049
citation                               @misc{ChecklistBankDataset1049, publisher = {Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Belspo}, address = {Brussels, Belgium}, version = {2026-03-01}, url = {http://www.gracillariidae.net}, title = {Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae}, author = {{De Prins}, {Jurate} and {De Prins}, {Willy}}, year = 2026, month = 3}
archiveURI                             hash://md5/a9c00391fc4c1321ea28655cf6c14b29
lastSeenAt                             2026-05-06T13:46:51.953Z
contentHash                            hash://md5/d50bc0600c4ad00554729d7b0bc69adc
eltonVersion                           0.16.10


The last record, as expressed in xtab format, being:

argumentTypeId                         https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/support
sourceOccurrenceId                     
sourceCatalogNumber                    
sourceCollectionCode                   
sourceCollectionId                     
sourceInstitutionCode                  
sourceTaxonId                          
sourceTaxonName                        Polypogon nemoralis
sourceTaxonRank                        
sourceTaxonPathIds                     
sourceTaxonPath                        
sourceTaxonPathNames                   
sourceBodyPartId                       
sourceBodyPartName                     
sourceLifeStageId                      http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002680
sourceLifeStageName                    larva
sourceSexId                            
sourceSexName                          
interactionTypeId                      http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
interactionTypeName                    eats
targetOccurrenceId                     
targetCatalogNumber                    
targetCollectionCode                   
targetCollectionId                     
targetInstitutionCode                  
targetTaxonId                          
targetTaxonName                        Nothofagus alpina
targetTaxonRank                        
targetTaxonPathIds                     
targetTaxonPath                        
targetTaxonPathNames                   
targetBodyPartId                       
targetBodyPartName                     Leaves
targetLifeStageId                      http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001421
targetLifeStageName                    alive
targetSexId                            
targetSexName                          
basisOfRecordId                        
basisOfRecordName                      
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/eventDate 
decimalLatitude                        
decimalLongitude                       
localityId                             GEONAMES:2635170
localityName                           United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
referenceDoi                           10.1093/forestry/66.2.183
referenceUrl                           https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/66.2.183
referenceCitation                      Welch, R. C., & Greatorex-Davies, J. N. (1993). Colonization of two Nothofagus species by Lepidoptera in southern Britain. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, 66(2), 181-203.
namespace                              ZekeMarshall/ZMBioticInteractions
citation                               Zeke Marshall. 2021. Species interactions manually extracted from literature.
archiveURI                             hash://md5/4a0dea0acfda74af9857782c456a49a3
lastSeenAt                             2026-05-06T23:05:18.682Z
contentHash                            hash://md5/b73dbdf3ac6c0e95176749f1c11fde06
eltonVersion                           0.16.10

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Cites
Journal article: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2020.101132 (DOI)
Journal article: 10.1038/s41597-023-02230-y (DOI)

References

  • Elliott M.J., Poelen J.H., Fortes J.A.B. (2020). Toward Reliable Biodiversity Dataset References. Ecological Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2020.101132 hash://sha256/136c3c1808bcf463bb04b11622bb2e7b5fba28f5be1fc258c5ea55b3b84f482c
  • Elliott M.J., Poelen, J.H. & Fortes, J.A.B. (2023) Signing data citations enables data verification and citation persistence. Sci Data. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02230-y hash://sha256/f849c870565f608899f183ca261365dce9c9f1c5441b1c779e0db49df9c2a19d