Global Biotic Interactions: Elton Dataset Cache
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Description
Global Biotic Interactions: Elton Dataset Cache
The intended use of this archive/cache is to allow for offline access to existing species interaction datasets. The program "Elton" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.998263) was used to populate the content of elton-datasets.tar.gz . The same program can be used to extract information from the cache archive also. Global Biotic Interactions (https://globalbioticinteractions.org, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.005) also uses these archives to create derived species interaction data archives, search indexes and APIs.
Contents
README - this file
elton-datasets.tar.gz - versioned archive with species interaction datasets
elton-datasets.tar.sha256 - content signature of elton-datasets.tar
elton-datasets.tsv - list of included datasets
elton.jar - commandline program to help access the species interaction datasets
Usage
To install, extract elton-datasets.tar.gz into a directory of choice using:
tar xfz elton-dataset.tar.gz
To use, download elton.jar included this publication and execute the following to get a list of available datasets:
java -Xmx4G -jar elton.jar datasets
on a system that has java v8+ installed.
If all goes well, you should be able to regenerate the included file elton-dataset.tsv .
For more information on how to use elton.jar, execute:
java- jar elton.jar usage
or visit https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/elton for more available commands.
Alternatively, without using Elton, you can access the data by inspecting the access.tsv files in the various directories of the datasets directory.
When using these datasets in a publication or product, please cite the *original* data providers and publications. You can find the citations in the data.