A Repackaged Taxonomic Backbone of Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Publication date:
2021-08-19T02:41:19+02:00

A Repackaged Taxonomic Backbone of Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) facilitates access to billions of biodiversity data records. This records include detailed accounts of life on earth.

To help find specific life forms, GBIF provides a taxonomic backbone [1,2]. This backbone contains a long list of names used to describe species and associated hierarchies and taxonomic publications. These lists are sourced from datasets around the world.

At time of writing (18 Aug 2021), GBIF publishes a simplified version of their taxonomic backbone at [https://hosted-datasets.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/](https://hosted-datasets.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/) [1].

This repository provides script to pre-process https://hosted-datasets.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-current-simple.txt.gz to help facilitate access and improve performance of the creation of search indexes.

Pre-process steps currently include:

1. reducing amount of columns
2. reverse sort by id
3. reverse sort by name

Contents
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README:
    this file

repackage-gbif-backbone.sh:
    script used to repackage GBIF Simple Backbone.

backbone-current-simple.txt.gz:
    original GBIF backbone archive

gbif-backbone-by-name.tsv.gz:
    two columns, gzipped, tab-separated text file with columns name, and id
    reverse sorted by name

gbif-backbone-by-name.tsv.sha256:
    sha256 hash of the uncompressed gbif-backbone-by-name.tsv.gz

gbif-backbone-by-id.tsv.gz:
    20 columns, gzipped, tab-separated text file with first 20 columns of repackaged GBIF backbone file
    reverse sorted by id

gbif-backbone-by-id.tsv.sha256:
    sha256 hash of the uncompressed gbif-backbone-by-id.tsv.gz

References
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[1] Simplied GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Accessed at https://hosted-datasets.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/ on 2021-08-18.
[2] GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-08-18.

Hash URIs
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This publication includes the following content uris:

repackage-gbif-backbone.sh:
    hash://sha256/073ac5490252c4ccbbd4f516d391faebe62c9fde9e4d75ae870441a86c382527

gbif-backbone-simple.txt.gz:
    hash://sha256/e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855
    hash://sha256/e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855 (uncompressed)

gbif-backbone-by-name.tsv.gz:
    hash://sha256/6e11ae9961a9498b60d4bdeb489d6c1f5da9c2732310edaecdc79bd287b79ef4
    hash://sha256/934ce05dbd067abb209168bd1d9389f122d051e1b7374b5d757a12e86f8da9a5 (uncompressed)

gbif-backbone-by-id.tsv.gz:
    hash://sha256/c434c7d3622421b17dadcd119391b32a66edee59f484d4cab924d92fd17713e2
    hash://sha256/e2cf9116a21966315b0482d391052223e21c8e916ae0c097dfd37bed017b815b (uncompressed)