DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14617512
title: Bat Literature Project (BatLit, https://batlit.org) v0.9 hash://md5/1cda41b660daf15c156f1e4cabf8c6f5 - Reference List, Metadata, and Associated Zenodo Deposits

description: 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 a reference list of 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.




filenames
description


data.zip / .tar.gz
batlit metadata archive


refs-100.tsv / .csv
author/date/title/journal of first 100 records


refs.tsv / .csv
author/date/title/journal of all records


data-on-zenodo.zip / .tar.gz
archive of associations of batlit metadata to Zenodo record ids 


refs-on-zenodo-100.tsv / .csv
author/date/title/journal/zenodo doi of first 100 records


refs-on-zenodo.tsv / .csv
author/date/title/journal/zenodo doi of first 100 records




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

cat refs.csv\
 | 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      Jonesdate         07/1972title        Comparative ecology of three pteropid bats in Rio Muni, West Africajournal      Journal of Zoologytype         journalArticlevolume       167issue        3pages        353-370doi          10.1111/j.1469-7998.1972.tb03118.xid           https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/SPESDC4Nattachment   https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/2243VAGUattachmentId hash://md5/ca80010ec55ec5ff7073697e9c696063corpusId     hash://md5/1cda41b660daf15c156f1e4cabf8c6f5

authors      Otto | Rall | Brosedate         12/2007title        Allometric degree distributions facilitate food-web stabilityjournal      Naturetype         journalArticlevolume       450issue        7173pages        1226-1229doi          10.1038/nature06359id           https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/6RAB386Yattachment   https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/225DJR2QattachmentId hash://md5/6bdc818006c01cac3dd90eec4b337289corpusId     hash://md5/1cda41b660daf15c156f1e4cabf8c6f5

authors      Horáček | Maul | Smith | Barkai | Gopherdate         2013title        Bat remains (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel, with the first Pleistocene record of fruit bats in the Mediterranean regionjournal      Palaeontologia Electronicatype         journalArticlevolume       issue        pages        doi          10.26879/380id           https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/U7ZDRXSPattachment   https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/225PBHZAattachmentId hash://md5/6b90b5beb4a8f39a49b39a55b0467d4fcorpusId     hash://md5/1cda41b660daf15c156f1e4cabf8c6f5





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 Otto 2007 at doi:10.5281/zenodo.13409129 (as seen on Zenodo on 2025-02-07). 

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

authors                Otto | Rall | Brosedate                   12/2007title                  Allometric degree distributions facilitate food-web stabilityjournal                Naturetype                   journalArticlevolume                 450issue                  7173pages                  1226-1229doi                    10.1038/nature06359id                     https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/6RAB386Yattachment             https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/225DJR2QattachmentId           hash://md5/6bdc818006c01cac3dd90eec4b337289corpusId               hash://md5/1cda41b660daf15c156f1e4cabf8c6f5alternativeDoi         10.5281/zenodo.13409129alternativeDoiUrl      https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13409129zenodoResponseCorpusId hash://md5/227956d1913ee55e460af32b7a18de13

Version History




name
version
date
size
# pages
# references
# attachments
fingerprint


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.1
2024-04-26
7.9 GiB
 
2929
5055
hash://sha256/6ba…189


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.2
2024-05-16/2024-05-17
11.6 GiB
 
3310
5471
hash://md5/be6…1d7


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.3
2024-06-25/2024-06-26
13.6 GiB
 
5501
7229
hash://md5/350…77d


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.4
2024-08-01/2024-08-02
50.9 GiB
 
20146
29860
hash://md5/b39…72a


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.5
2024-08-16/2024-08-17
50.9 GiB
 
20145
29850
hash://md5/26f…b20


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.6
2024-09-19/2024-09-20
44.7GiB
427105
19038
22590
hash://md5/db7…97b


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.7
2024-12-05/2024-12-06
45.2GiB
431870
19268
22930
hash://md5/ce1…1a3


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.8
2025-10-02
45.5GiB
432925
19252
22947
hash://md5/330…ce0


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.9
2025-12-19/2025-12-20
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
hash://md5/1cd…6f5




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) v0.9 hash://md5/1cda41b660daf15c156f1e4cabf8c6f5 .